“This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I am first and foremost a musician, although those of us who live elsewhere still dream about the inspirational qualities of Australia… — Roger Woodward Copy Share Image
If people like you, they will like your magic. If you are an artist at what you do, they will sing your… — Paul LePaul Copy Share Image
I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative…the real secret of… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
You can feel greatness in the ring. You can get two guys that gel together and it's just like poetry or a… — Ricky Steamboat Copy Share Image
“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly...… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art.… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I've never had a mentor personally of any kind. It feels like, generally, in the writing world or the art world, it's… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It's really painful when four singers are asked to sing one track, and in the end, only one of them is kept.… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
In some ways, writing music is an art because so much of it is instinctive and sort of below consciousness, and lyric… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
I'm aware of the other drag artists with makeup lines, and I celebrate them. The pie is big and there's room for… — Willam Belli Copy Share Image
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There were no words to describe her, nor were there ones I could coherently form in the moment; she was a work… — Raine Miller Copy Share Image
Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well. — Robert McAfee Brown Copy Share Image
The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
“Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even… — Viktor Shklovsky Copy Share Image
I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.'… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art. — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
When you think, 'I want to be an artist,' there are a few things you think of, the first thing being: album. — Raye Copy Share Image
“The way of the sword doesn't belong to any one nation. Knowledge of the arts belongs to us all.” — Tim Hendrick Copy Share Image
Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
![“[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures…” quote by Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/1e7/charles-fort-11887_art_wise-men-have-tried-to-understand-our-st_19788.jpg)
