I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do,… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you're talking mixed martial arts, to have a win over a guy who is by many considered the greatest of all… — Derek Brunson Copy Share Image
“The brain’s dense thicket of interrelationships, like those of history or art, does not yield to the reductivist’s bright blade.” — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
I like churches and Catholic symbolism, and although the art at the Vatican is overwhelming to see, I appreciated it even as… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
“We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The only problem I had on The Voice, was wishing that we, as artists, could have had a stronger opinion in our… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life,… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature.… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
To hear an artist be transparent is one of the greatest things they could ever do for their fans. I love that,… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
“Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience. — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I was raised with the idea that the arts were a doss - but the arts are vital. If you see Mark… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love'… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
“An artist's eye can take the spiritual and bring it down to earth. Remember the eye is the window to the soul.” — by Elisabeth Musser Copy Share Image
I've always been a huge fan of martial arts and comedy, so Rush Hour was the perfect combination for me. — Justin Hires Copy Share Image
I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
“In art as in experience, everyday life may be with us at the start but remains fugitive to the very end.” — Joseph Leo Koerner Copy Share Image
The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to… — Donato Giancola Copy Share Image
I was told growing up that the arts were just a hobby - that I couldn't do it as a career. — Mena Massoud Copy Share Image
We ought to arrange calendars as we arrange art on our walls and ask: how does this task fit next to the… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
“Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.” — Cathryn Louis Copy Share Image
In America, I worked for an artist who drew people in clothes, mainly for Bloomingdale's. I did it part-time when I wasn't… — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable — Per Brinch Hansen Copy Share Image
One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah. — Drake Copy Share Image
I hate when dealers talk to me. I love dealers - they're some of our favorite people in the art world. But… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I dropped out of arts school because I didn't wanna stare at a computer all day - I get headaches. — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
We always try to sing what we feel, and it would be best if we can become artists who can deliver the… — Jisoo Copy Share Image
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies.… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
