“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,” — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
I would like to do more projects involving artists from film, fashion and music. That's the spark for me. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word, for thou art not so long by the head as honor… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29,… — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
“However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau” — Jean-Jaeques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I am more aware of the world now, the tiny insignificant things especially. I am beginning to be more childlike. For an… — Thomas DeBaggio Copy Share Image
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
“mismatched collection of flea market leftovers. The walls, though, were exhibiting an interesting collection of oils and pastels by local artists, all… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
“Chase was gone then, and Donnie was back, alone in his room, wondering about those pictures from an art book he'd so… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“Love, reverence, and adoration, are multifaceted emotions. Similar to a painting by an artist, how we respond to a beautiful woman, nature,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't… — TyDi Copy Share Image
I am honored I have performed 'Quizas Quizas Quizas' with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I'm not tryin' to cut off my ear. I'm not humiliating myself. — Rosie Perez Copy Share Image
In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“As with everything else, the more we separate ourselves from each other, the weaker we become.” — Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative Life blog Teresa R. Funke Copy Share Image
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Music has always been a visual thing to me, so writing and drawing the 'Skin&Earth' comics, which tie cohesively with the music,… — Lights Copy Share Image
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away. — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist,… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“[He] told me more than once that being with me is like an epileptic with a pacemaker being married to a strobe… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Critical thinking is a lost 'art' that has yet to be found, if it is even being looked for".” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
People eventually get sick of waiting and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect. — Jasmine T Copy Share Image
A campaign is a complex organism that requires expensive parts. Finding the right parts and meshing them together into a cohesive working… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
People look to 'Dear White People' as an encyclopedia of our culture. But it's also art, and there are characters with different… — Logan Browning Copy Share Image
New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something,… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. — Walter Hagen Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
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