I've loved poetry since a very young age and my parents, especially my dad, he really introduced us to art when we… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
“An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes, with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills." — Daniel Burnham talking about Frederick… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality” — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
“The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.” — Girdhar Joshi Copy Share Image
One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. — Kenneth Noland Copy Share Image
Compared to other liberal cities like San Francisco and Amsterdam, New Yorkers are always trying to do something, make art or love… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
“My hope for you is not only to learn skills through this collection of projects, but also that it brings you a… — Chantal Larocque Copy Share Image
The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly. — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
Most artists over 40 or 50 don't get played on the radio. It's a young people's game. I was ready for that. — Anne Murray Copy Share Image
Many artists, when they are creating art, are searching for a vehicle that can manifest a feeling they have inside of themselves. — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material. — Don Everly Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the… — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
“As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Clothes are functional but that doesn't mean they're not a form of art. They're just another way to express creativity. It could… — Manish Arora Copy Share Image
Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons. — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“The less evidence of extrinsic motivation during art school, the more success in professional art both several years after graduation and nearly… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image