All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's my job as an artist and as an actor to use this platform to make people learn and grow, to change… — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I literally have my hand in every aspect of the art world that you could imagine. That's what I've always done. — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more… — Darryl Anka Copy Share Image
“It's her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
Most of the time, with artists like me who go on to become superstars, you never see them when they are still… — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Art as radar acts as an early alarm system, as it were, enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“I can't understand how people can have grown up in the eighties, amidst all this competitive spirit, gangster battles, hiphop - and… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
I just want to hone in on how I like to fight rather than just keep exploring new styles and new martial… — Rory MacDonald Copy Share Image
Being in the music business, if we couldn't pull the fashions from designers and if designers couldn't use artists to show off… — Tina Knowles Copy Share Image
I don't think it's right to define films as commercial or art house. What's important is that a film evokes a certain… — Saqib Saleem Copy Share Image
“The art of coaching is doing, thinking, and being: doing a set of actions, holding a set of beliefs, and being in… — Elena Aguilar Copy Share Image
There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day,… — Rachele Brooke Smith Copy Share Image
I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are… — Claire Weekes Copy Share Image
“Far from being about practising the dark arts, the modern witch movement is all about female empowerment. Women” — Lisa Lister Copy Share Image
An artist is usually responsible only for the creation of a particular art. It's up to the critics to label it. — Anupam Roy Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries. — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
“What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
“I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms… — Maya Deren Copy Share Image
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot. — Frank Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those… — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
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