Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or… — Gerald Moor Copy Share Image
I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13. — Katheryn Winnick Copy Share Image
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A lot of people think martial arts are just fighting, but it's character-building, too, and I want to give back. — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real. — Burton Raffel Copy Share Image
No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Sometimes to see your work’s rightful place you have to walk to the edge of the precipice and search the deep chasms.… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets.… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a… — Charles Ludlam Copy Share Image
Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more full filled person than they can ever be because theyre caught up in… — Zoheb Copy Share Image
I had a teacher/director at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where I trained for a year, named Mary Duff, who taught… — Rosemary Harris Copy Share Image
The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“Mari's original plan to have the Queen play coy with the King was, she now realized, woefully inadequate—a milkmaid's game, played against… — Dawn Patitucci Copy Share Image
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I was one of the first artists to make a buzz about '106 & Park.' If it wasn't for that show, I… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble. — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun. — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36) — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“Poem Words from the heart Breaking, teaching, healing The deepest, purest form of art Feeling” — Esther Spurrill Jones Copy Share Image
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here. — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw? — Banksy Copy Share Image
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I never imagined that I'd end up in animation, but marine biology and art collided, and here we are! — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing. — Melanie Fiona Copy Share Image
An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life. — Timbaland Copy Share Image
I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
“Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
