Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art. — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I prefer to be out of the way, not because of an insecurity or shyness but because I think art is at… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven.… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
With my childhood and growing up in a very free place where my parents were artists and always encouraging me to explore,… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
I just hope people see the work that I'm doing. I hope they acknowledge comedy and what an art form it is.… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.' — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays… — Jason Priestley Copy Share Image
I love paying people to touch me. Nail techs, hair stylists, dermatologists, make-up artists, osteopaths: you name it, I love it. — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
“Even a nation brainwashed to equate artsiness with art knows when its eyelids are drooping.” — B.R. Myers Copy Share Image
And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes. — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
“How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Makeup and beauty is essentially art so I really can't say that I dislike any trend. I love seeing innovation and creativity.… — Huda Kattan Copy Share Image
We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
People like to put music and art up against the dehumanizing character of commerce and business corporations. — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform. — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
