Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether it's a leaf from a tree, the supermarket or person, everything is art and movement, it's all inspiration. — Adriano Zumbo Copy Share Image
'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows… — Jacques d'Amboise Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
The art of songwriting is just stumbling your way to something really special, and you don't know what you're going to write… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a great and glorious nation. Favourite amongst his subjects was the court… — Banksy Copy Share Image
What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge,… — Ernst von Glasersfeld Copy Share Image
When I work as an art director, I don't ask to see sketches from illustrators or photographers. I give them a basic… — David Carson Copy Share Image
I've had times in the past where I wanted to give up acting, get my head out of the arts because it… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a… — Mark Johnson Copy Share Image
It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher. — William James Copy Share Image
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm! — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the artist Parra, and the way he draws naked women is really cool to see. It doesn't… — Chaz Bundick Copy Share Image
Boston is home to the world's most innovative thinkers - in science and technology, and in business, art, and architecture. — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
“I have not art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, oh, most best, believe it.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
“The elaborately executed art on the ceiling in the Altamira cave did not fit current notions of Palaeolithic ‘savagery’; it was too… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process. — William James Copy Share Image
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist. — Helena Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
