Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else... — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
Art of selfishness. I would like, my wife always to be happy, so can give their husband happiness. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I believe a person who designs for the sheer passion of creativity can do so across media - it is like any… — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
“Psychotherapy is the art of finding the angel of hope in the midst of terror, despair and madness.” — Cloe Madanes Copy Share Image
Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as… — Ben Edwards Copy Share Image
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Farber says (in my recollection, anyway) the European (or classical) art, including film, is culturally assumed to be a monumental slab. It's… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of… — Plato Copy Share Image
“an art academy, (2) a technical trade school, (3) a monastery or religious retreat, and (4) a university college. I shall spell… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that. — Cise Star Copy Share Image
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
“time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pakistan doesn't value its artistes. I will get trolled for what I have said, but that is the reality. It is unfortunate. — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice. — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
“For a celebrity he has an awful excess of sensibility, and is very anxious about one's opinion of him. Perhaps it comes… — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The rainbow flag is beautiful because it's about love. The Confederate flag is ugly because it's about hate. It's pretty simple from… — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
For bigs, we usually have three simple moves - and the hook-shot is one of those moves that's a forgotten art. But… — Tristan Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm constantly exchanging ideas with new artists. Honestly, with Jay-Z, our only interaction was a brief hello after I signed. — Jay Park Copy Share Image
The fact that God is for me, that is huge for me when I am thinking about fighting my own sins, because… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image