Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have… — Marla Sokoloff Copy Share Image
If you are a musician, you practise your instrument every day, but actors can't be on a set every day. Theatre is… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Our art form is TRULY a collaboration, and there are no unimportant members on any crew. — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“I love the French and Italian church paintings from the Middle Ages. But I'm also interested to learn more about who was… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Public relations, in this country, is the art of adapting big business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that… — Arthur W. Page Copy Share Image
When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist.… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres.… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Man, says Protagoras, now has the wisdom necessary for life ... but he does not have political wisdom. At this point, people… — Paul Ludwig Landsberg Copy Share Image
“The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I picked up a lot watching Ultimate Fighting. I studied martial arts. But I had an idea to be different, to portray… — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges. — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Musicians and artists, they are going to stand together for community and you are going to bring people in and figure out… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
Acting is too often looked upon as a 'gifted art.' This may be, but having the gift is only the beginning. It… — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance. — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of… — Alexander Stoddart Copy Share Image
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . . — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to a lot of very smart pop records by artists like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prince,… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before. — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past… — William Redington Hewlett Copy Share Image
