The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Though the extractive institutions that the Mayas created produced sufficient wealth for the cities to flourish and the elite to become wealthy… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism.… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
“What the young writer needs to develop, to achieve his goal of becoming a great artist, is not a set of aesthetic… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
“To me reading is an almost sacred activity and the great novel is its high mass. The novel is so deeply powerful… — Gregory Day Copy Share Image
I just feel like, at any moment, a drag or a trans or a gender-diverse artist that doesn't fit in a box… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I have a fan base that some people say is equal to that of signed artists' maybe even more. — Drake Copy Share Image
History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art. — Johann Gustav Droysen Copy Share Image
God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness. — Kenneth Myers Copy Share Image
I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich. — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Everybody knows with rap artists, if you can't go to the hood, it's almost like you're not authentic, even if you're a… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. — Childe Hassam Copy Share Image
Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture. — Alfred Lunt Copy Share Image
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.” — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name - Romeo & Juliet — Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“All that's really required is that anything the state does in relation to the arts is laid on the table where we… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
