People forget that boxing is the art of self-defence - ideally, hit and not be hit - and maybe we should all… — Amir Khan Copy Share Image
Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
When we go all over the world and observe art therapy, it's used frequently with people who are having some kind of… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
“Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent… — Samuel George Morton Copy Share Image
“Sharon Garlough Brown may be a novelist, but she’s also a portrait artist, painting with tender detail the souls of four women… — Sharon Garlough Brown Copy Share Image
In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife's barbiturate addiction and death by… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self.… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite. — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
I made my living as an actor, and I love acting, so I'm an actor. But that gets you in a lot… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I was a complete anomaly in this business. I didn't fit into the Hema Malini-Zeenat Aman commercial cinema mould, neither the Shabana… — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
“In the fall nature informs of its artistic side. It continues to confirm the beauty of the world. Nature is art perfected.” — Nature is art Fall season Art informs Copy Share Image
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. --Havelock Ellis — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I have been fortunate enough to see many places of this earth and most certainly a lot of art, but I would… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Let it be said that the makeup artist at '90210' made me look better for the fake red carpet than I've ever… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE"... To whom?.. To where?...… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
