“The Romans were distinguished for their genius for law-giving and government, the Greeks for philosophy, art, and mental culture generally.” — James Elliott Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The swans have returned and so have the dolphins to the Canals of Venice. Nature creates the most beautiful art!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
“Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality… — Jim Steinmeyer Copy Share Image
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The last word always belongs to the audience... that blessed connection... that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring… — Ruth Cracknell Copy Share Image
Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
As an artist, it's so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
“Ndiawar is bent to an open drawer. 'Your new art therapy person,' he says to Yang. Yang looks Day in the eye.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both. — Chilly Gonzales Copy Share Image
“Intimacy is about growing more than you could by yourself, through the art of mutual gifting.” — David Deida Copy Share Image
He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
At some point in life the worlds beauty becomes enough. You dont need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
I want people to take me seriously as an artist and to hear that I have something to truly say and to… — Darren Fletcher Copy Share Image
I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with. — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I will argue passionately that 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is a great work of art - and woe betide anyone who tries to… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow,… — Maxfield Parrish Copy Share Image
I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
It made me a household name, but nothing comes for nothing. What I had to give physically, emotionally and vocally to that… — Anthony Warlow Copy Share Image
All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Was I a Jackie Chan-level martial arts master? Absolutely not! Not by any stretch of the imagination. I'm an actor. I'm a… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
I want to get us out of a place where the veterans are chastising the new artists and vice versa. I think… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
