My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated. — Tsukahara Bokuden Copy Share Image
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
“I like religion and art because they know they are servants to life; I hate science and philosophy because they think they… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously. — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers… — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“A famous artist is approached by a student. "You don't remember me," the student says correctly, "but years ago you said something… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result,… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Making art, being creative, is risky, especially for actors, but everybody on the set is being creative. You're putting yourself out there… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster - in music, in fashion, in art, too. — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“[...] he is the artist of his own life, and creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more. — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art. — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
I think I always wanted to be an artist. I sort of just followed my passion right out of high school, and… — Lisa Frank Copy Share Image
There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by… — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
“Only art as meditation reminds people so that they will never forget that the most beautiful thing a potter produces is...the potter.” — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea. — David Guetta Copy Share Image
All these years, I have handpicked my films. It was passion and love for the art that made me do films. — Nithya Menen Copy Share Image
Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability? — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
“Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.” — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that — Banksy Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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