It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed. — Charlie Peacock Copy Share Image
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I met the devil,' Ernest said, finishing his glass of wine, 'and he doesn't give a damn about art.” — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“We were those girls, the artist’s daughters, the mermaids, the ones with long, tangled hair who did what they wanted. Inside, always,… — Stacey D'Erasmo Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
“There's a table with some catalogues and a guest book in the corner; there are artworks. Today, I need so badly to… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no… — Gary Barlow Copy Share Image
I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I'm a trained engineer, so I'm conditioned to come up with a right answer to a difficult question, but when it comes… — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Kids bring their mothers and grandmothers to our concerts. You don't see that with a lot of artists today. — Kevin Olusola Copy Share Image
I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling. — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
There's no need to put a dumb picture of us on the album cover. We always look at ourselves and think, 'Wow,… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period. — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Fuck art. I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference.” — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular. — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
Everything I do through my art is a way to get my thumb on top of what's happened to me in the… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them. — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
I do love fashion as a mode of self expression, and I appreciate it for being wearable art. — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense,… — George Bellows Copy Share Image
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I definitely hope that I'm inspiring a lot of different female artists to run with the boys. — Kodie Shane Copy Share Image
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
