All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life. — D. J. Enright Copy Share Image
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph. — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat. — Daria Werbowy Copy Share Image
A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“And that’s the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
“Artist get better by sharpening their skills or by acquiring new ones; they get better by learning to work, and by learning… — David Bayles and Ted Orland Copy Share Image
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
I think I grew up in an 'acultural' household - no books, no paintings, never went to an art gallery. I say… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
