Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll… — Tyler Hojberg Copy Share Image
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. — Jay Sankey Copy Share Image
There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called… — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The Neo-Pagan Ten “Commandments” 1. Thou art God/dess. 2. As above, so below; as within so without. 3. Spirit abides in all… — Marian Singer Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I just want to have folks be comfortable and just share and have a good conversation. To me, that's kind of a… — Rich Eisen Copy Share Image
To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables, from their being in close relationship with beauty and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Bangladesh, despite producing big upsets in the past, doesn't have the art of beating big teams consistently. — Sourav Ganguly Copy Share Image
The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste? — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts. — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows. — Les Brown Copy Share Image
I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause. — Su Shi Copy Share Image
It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It… — Vance Palmer Copy Share Image
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence.… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums… — No I.D Copy Share Image
To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that… — Doseone Copy Share Image