When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are actually very few deeply 'gifted' kids with transcendent cognitive or artistic abilities. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.” — Dianne Harman Copy Share Image
I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
“Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.” — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
We needed to do "Community Project" to feel comfortable doing our own thing, and then "That's It That's All" was this experiment… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident… — David N. Elkins Copy Share Image
The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“There are two gifts which every man of images needs to be a true creator: a certain sensitivity to life, to living… — Brassaï Copy Share Image
I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to be jerks to make good art either, but somehow we as a society have romanticised that… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
“The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
I just want to continue to do work that challenges me and that I get to surround myself with thoughtful, intelligent, compassionate,… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
I actually started off - believe it or not - doing drag. I travelled the world because I was a completely off-the-wall… — Kristian Nairn Copy Share Image
the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back — Beverly Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm very much influenced by your traditional comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth and Walter Simonson. Their styles were sort… — Tim Fish Copy Share Image
Prison is no hardship, really. I'm in the art room as an assistant to the tutor, and basically, I'm doing what I… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my… — Jim Drain Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ” — Vanessa M. Chattman Copy Share Image
What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My sophomore year, I transferred from a public high school to an arts school, and, obviously, it didn't have any sports for… — Renee Rapp Copy Share Image
“Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I am of the belief that acting is a form of blended art that shouldn't be restricted to a particular type or… — Saba Qamar Copy Share Image
Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what… — Pat Boone Copy Share Image
In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience. — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer. — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books. — Zoe Wanamaker Copy Share Image
