Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
It's a great thing about this Internet thing we've got going. I have the luxury of not going through filters or network… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
“My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before -- or to show you… — Mike Duron Copy Share Image
I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
“But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Making art can be a mystical, spiritual experience. Sort of like golfing on water, which I haven’t done, because I’m more Michael… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I Do In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you read Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," you know that he likes to create leverage, he likes to… — Wendy Sherman Copy Share Image
“However," he continued, "this canvas is preferable to the paintings of that varlet Rubens, with his mountains of Flemish flesh sprinkled with… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
I personally think there's going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than there were for programming… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
“I presume this is part of your erotic art collection?" she mused out loud. "It is most beautifully done; only look at… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good. — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage,… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and… — Aby Rosen Copy Share Image
The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art. — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have… — Namie Amuro Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms. — Frank Griswold Copy Share Image
Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, only the desire. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
“The command of the old despotisms was "Thou shalt not". The command of the totalitarians was "Thou shalt". Our command is "Thou… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I'm never too nervous about releasing music. I like to see what the people think because it helps me make myself better… — Kid Ink Copy Share Image
I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages. — David Altmejd Copy Share Image
You can do hip-hop no matter how old you are. It's about relating to people, and the older artists have something to… — B-Real Copy Share Image
I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn’t looking.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an… — Charles-Edward A. Winslow Copy Share Image
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“To him, art and craftmanship were usless unless they burned like the sun and had power of storms.” — Hesse, Hermann Copy Share Image
“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image