It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect. — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev. — Armie Hammer Copy Share Image
Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it,… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
“I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When you're making your living as a writer or an artist or a musician, you kind of live in a trance. You're… — Stephen R. Bissette Copy Share Image
It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
“I asked Geertrui the other day what she thought love is-real love, true love. She said that for her real love is… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Lord's art was to make thine heart soft as snow-But Thy arts made thine heart stiff as stone — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter? — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer.… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
“It is not difficult to be alone if you are poor and a failure. An artist is always alone – if he… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that the artists sympathised not with the actual working classes but with their own idea of the working… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Is something art just because a museum hangs it on their wall? Are you networking just because you’re standing in a crowded… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business. — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The worst frame of mind to be in is what the fans like or what the fans want, because then you lose… — BeBe Zahara Benet Copy Share Image
M.A.C. stands for makeup, art, and cosmetics. We're about bringing all these worlds together - makeup, design, fashion. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others. — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
More entertainers should come forward to support sports. I'd love to see Akshay Kumar in a film on Indian martial arts. — Sangram Singh Copy Share Image
“What is more boundless than imagination? What is more primordial than the art of creation? To create and be creative is perhaps… — Atalina Wright Copy Share Image
If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better.… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation” — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
Nate Dogg is my favorite artist. I cried more when he passed than when Michael Jackson did. — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
I really want to be associated with great projects and character driven projects and films. I have to feed my soul, and… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
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