I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Art is an infusion of inner feelings and thoughts executed in an original style that defines the artist. — Jean Norvy Copy Share Image
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words --… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear… — Orlan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze."… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic.… — Robbie Williams Copy Share Image
“They create goods to grant us a semblance of liberty. If violence is the Gold sport, manipulation is their art form.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
The most important thing is not victory, the most important thing is don't get defeated. — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all. — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
“The Moms revealed that if you're not crazy then speaking to someone who isn't there is termed apostrophe and is valid art.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know you enjoyed tree climbing.' 'Tree reading actually. It’s an art which should not be conducted while lethargic….” — Grace Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it… — Dorothea Tanning Copy Share Image
It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it. — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess. — Wong Shun Leung Copy Share Image
The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists. — Lisa Lopes Copy Share Image
