“As far as he could see, the drawings were simply alive. They might be colored earth on rock, but they were as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult. — Ernst Fuchs Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct. — Ovid Copy Share Image
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The ballet world is so competitive, and for no reason. It's not a sport. It's an art. There's no winner. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick,… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as… — Clive James Copy Share Image
My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
“To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be… — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not. — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a state of mind, a way of being, and it comes from a sacred place within.” — Bonnie Kelso Copy Share Image
When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about. — Don Ed Hardy Copy Share Image
I was really grateful for the photography classes, the art classes, and the video classes. They would let me skip all my… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is… — Beverly Johnson Copy Share Image
I have this ridiculous idea that art should just be for everyone, and everyone should get to enjoy art and it shouldn't… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs. — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
“Throughout medical school, residency, specialties, and subspecialties some feel we have allowed the science to overshadow the art.” — Richard Colgan Copy Share Image
Social media has been such a big important thing for young artists and minorities because it's a community to get noticed. It's… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art.… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I don't care about being the champ champ. I want to be the only consecutive 12-time defending champion in any mixed martial… — Demetrious Johnson Copy Share Image
