“Art is a concept used for making your soul grow. It's God's way of showing you that you also have the power… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
The year 2006, when I came to Christie's, was a very euphoric time to be part of the art world. — David Linley Copy Share Image
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for… — JR Copy Share Image
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Swordsmanship is the art used at the border between life and death. It is easy to throw away your life and proceed… — Issai Chozanshi Copy Share Image
I love working with younger people. I feel like we need to catch up with them. In South Asian art it's important… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Selling out is a term that jealous people use to describe artists that are better and bigger than them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Movie, being an art form, should have artistic value and should do justice to the artistes. — Tovino Thomas Copy Share Image
There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an… — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
The Peapod Foundation provides tools and mentors encouraging children to express themselves through music and art. — apl.de.ap Copy Share Image
Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients. — Nobu Matsuhisa Copy Share Image
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from… — Siobhan Davies Copy Share Image
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf… — Hans Frank Copy Share Image
“Azevedo Bandeira is an expert in the art of progressive intimidation, in the satanic maneuver of gradually humiliating his interlocutor by combining… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“They were a sign of patronage, a sign of having so much money that it had to be squandered on objects with… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I've seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails. — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“He was ... at peace with the world, for it is not in the praise of others that the true artist revels,… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big. — Rakim Copy Share Image
“when he kissed me i couldn't have cared less about being a good person. i felt amazing. p304 the fine art of… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself. — Herb Goldberg Copy Share Image
In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image