One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
Just as sport can, art has the capacity to cross so many boundaries like education, race and religion. — Susie Wolff Copy Share Image
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had… — Ellen Forney Copy Share Image
Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness. — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
“Sonnet: Political Greatness Nor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame, Nor peace, nor strength, nor skill in arms or arts, Shepherd those herds… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
If I was an artist, you would be my picture! If I was a poet, you would be my inspiration! If I… — Ali Bassam Copy Share Image
Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
“Everything is art,' Tim says, a far-off look suddenly clouding those hazel eyes. 'Death is art. Life is art. Pain is art.” — Jen Violi Copy Share Image
The goal every day of my life is to make some sort of artistic difference on a more profound level than just… — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine,… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
“You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and… — Ann Marie Frohoff Copy Share Image
My life is full good and bad artists and real villains.. I mean to say my life is full of drama — Kand3n Copy Share Image
I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
There should be a harmonious blend of religion, philosophy and art for man to live healthily in the world. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer,is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can… — Maegan Cook Copy Share Image
Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
I've studied martial arts since I was a kid. I can tell you that if you took me on, it wouldn't be… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Make gifts meaningful by putting the time in creating them, whether baking and cooking, or in making arts and craft. It will… — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour. — Galina Ulanova Copy Share Image
It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image