Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? WHY YOUR FIVE-YEAR-OLD COULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT HOW TO SURVIVE MODERN ART” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
“...we see this tendency to throw off restraints in life, in art - it's an inglorious gesture of thumbing the nose -… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course,… — Karen Fukuhara Copy Share Image
“Writing is the art of remembering and forgetting. You must forget what you’ve already written, because if you’re dwelling on your old… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“After spending all that time in bed, I realized I was treating the act of eating as though it's the art of… — Kyung Ran Jo Copy Share Image
There are artists in Belgium who try to imitate American artists. But it's like, if you're Belgian pretending to be American, you… — Stromae Copy Share Image
With acting, I'm taking somebody else's work and interpreting it. Whereas with music, it's organic. It's completely myself. Nobody else is really… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
“All my life I have refused to be for or against parties, for or against nations, for or against people. I never… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Everything I record, I end up putting out. You hear about artists with hundreds of songs in their archive, and I have… — Laufey Copy Share Image
Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film. — Jack O'Connell Copy Share Image
“What had, moments ago, appeared a dangerous gambit, now seemed an elegant coup de maître.” — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
We're trying to teach artists that if you're smart enough to develop the material, then you're smart enough to market and promote… — David Banner Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the… — Charles Sovek Copy Share Image
“We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate on them well,” wrote Emerson. Is it true? If… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“All art needs to be funny, sad and a little disturbing simultaneously or else it's not art.” — Ezekiel Tyrus Copy Share Image
Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.” — Tyler Hojberg Copy Share Image
“Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d… — Louis Kahan Copy Share Image
Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art. — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then. — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself — Finn Juhl Copy Share Image
“We [artists] aren't people, not the way most people are. We're just...carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands.” — Sam Starbuck Copy Share Image
Sticks &d Stones are hard on bones Aimed with angry art Words can sting like anything But silence breaks the heart — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I briefly studied martial arts in college and realised that I might not be a great fighter physically, but it gave me… — Nushrat Bharucha Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it. — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
“Follow your heart as long as you live...Bring your whole heart towards excellence...And no limit may be set to art.” — The Instruction of Ptahhotop Copy Share Image
“The “Art Nouveau” appeal of smoking: manufacture your own pneuma, spirit. “I’m alive.” “I’m decorative.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. — Leonid Afremov Copy Share Image