To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions. — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan. — Miguel Copy Share Image
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience unless you know your truth,… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response. — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I… — Max Walker Copy Share Image
“I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
“Reading, like other types of art appreciation, is intensely personal. So what appeals to people is going to depend on who they… — Lauren Dane Copy Share Image
“But it's your Oracle," I protested. "Can't you tell us what the prophecy means?" Apollo sighed. "You might as well ask an… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
I'm an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and… — JWoww Copy Share Image
That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality,… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere. — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
Even though I went to an arts school and I was doing theatre, no one really said that they were going to… — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
As a creative, as an artist, I'm just excited when people want my stuff, and want to experience it. — Randy Pitchford Copy Share Image
I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source.… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty. — Jacques Prevert Copy Share Image
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
“psychoanalysis is more than a technique; it is an art, and highly specialized training in craftsmanship will” — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing. — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
A man must be master of himself and master of his word to achieve the full realization of himself as an artist — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And… — Connie Sellecca Copy Share Image
“Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annhilation… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Like Love, Art ties together all the great sacred traditions because they all used creative expression, or we wouldn't know about them. — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
