To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business. — Dwayne Hickman Copy Share Image
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about. — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art. — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
“For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Art is love-times-love; the creator loves it and his audience adores it. To miss the sensation of loving art is to miss… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I was in film school, we were making a movie, and the teacher told me 'You cannot make movies like this.' I… — Darby Allin Copy Share Image
I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt… — Kari Matchett Copy Share Image
The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
The most basic excitement was the opportunity to work with Dave Cockrum. He was an artist I'd admired for years and our… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
I'm really into the recycling of art. That one piece of art inspires another piece of art, which inspires another piece of… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like -… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“He accorded his art the highest respect, that of never taking it for granted. Always, as long as he lived, he tried… — Elizabeth Borton De Trevino Copy Share Image
Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
“Oh, it was a complicated business, loving art. It involved a lot more ill will than one might have suspected.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Contemporary Swedish artists that chose Swedish as their language tended to sing about certain topics and use words I wanted to avoid. — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
It's important to make art that you intended to make. If it gets compromised later, that's not a good thing. — Sarah Snook Copy Share Image
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like… — Mark Grotjahn Copy Share Image
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by… — William James Copy Share Image
“Aikido ain't a defensive nor offensive martial art. It proactively halts the enemy's intention to attack.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic. — John Woo Copy Share Image
I modeled my work after contemporary masters of art house cinema but felt my voice was missing. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself. — Minor White Copy Share Image
