The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“An artist so perfect reproduces the Mona Lisa, rubbished for being unoriginal proves talent & result unrelated.” — A.C. Quinn Copy Share Image
A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A. — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs. — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like 'The Sopranos' or 'Deadwood' 'art' that they were correct. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and… — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but… — O. T. Fagbenle Copy Share Image
As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I believe that teaching is a creative art in which evidence based knowledge is applied toward meeting the learning goals of learners.… — Barbara Paterson Copy Share Image
A big part of the challenge is teaching your kids how to have a real conversation, not a texting conversation. If they're… — Laurie David Copy Share Image
I came into my own, you might say, in terms of putting out my first record quite late in life. And yet… — Pegi Young Copy Share Image
“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
'Deadwood' was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do as an actor as an… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying,… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me. — Prince Copy Share Image
Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip,… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive. — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time. — Cher Lloyd Copy Share Image
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at right time. But also to leave unsaid the… — Ash J Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a realized artist, but hey, the good news is I can get better, and I'm going to continue… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Apparently, Agent Coulson is a representative or an avatar of all the geeks. And there is so much love for Coulson and… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers. — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“Show me somebody who really knows what irony means and I’ll show you a bullshit artist.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When the participants of the Femina Miss India contest join the Art of Living course, we stress that they must live in… — Rhea Pillai Copy Share Image
Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed. — Douglas Holtz-Eakin Copy Share Image
For years, I kept the two separate: Michael Horse the artist and Michael Horse the actor. I like the acting, but I'm… — Michael Horse Copy Share Image
I just love what art can do and what it means for us; that it can cross barriers. It can speak to… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
“Great art might not be popular, but it is always born out of non-linear, non-formulaic thinking.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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