Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Business was simply the name given to art of taking money from others without using force.” — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads… — Paul Russo Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us. — David Amram Copy Share Image
“The finest art of communication is not learning how to express your thoughts. It is learning how to draw out the thoughts… — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
I so wish to work with Sanjay Leela Bhansali because his creativity is of a different level. His vision, his style of… — Ishita Dutta Copy Share Image
“In the late afternoon, Lily approached Ian as he reclined on the couch sketching. “I’ve got something to ask you,” she said,… — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
I like to be in the zone. I like being in the studio with the artists, with the producers, with the musicians,… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“Try describing a few of the most wildly successful pop albums of the twentieth century without mentioning the artist and title. A… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I think, in any profession, what you fear most is not being able to perform, about not being able to meet new… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
I find inspiration in what artists and regular people on the street wear, but I'm also very influenced by what I like… — Kygo Copy Share Image
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything… — David Finch Copy Share Image
“It seems to me a work of art is the evidence offered by a fantastically observant witness” — John Banville Copy Share Image
“If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.” — Constantin S Stanislavski Copy Share Image
With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil. — John Milton Copy Share Image
To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'. — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“[...] what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.” — Miles J. Unger Copy Share Image
I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don't want… — Hayley Kiyoko Copy Share Image
Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department! — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements. — Om Malik Copy Share Image
“I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
I guess at my core, I'm an artist. And so the opportunity to utilize my imagination, create things and share stories is… — Judy Norton Copy Share Image
I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Being a performer and recording artist and playing 'World of Warcraft' - that's a pretty time-intensive combination. — Lights Copy Share Image
When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
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