“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” —Groucho Marx” — David Oliver Copy Share Image
Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
For me, being an artist was a thing that, like, rich people in New York and L.A. and Paris and Rome did.… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.” — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“set me a task in witch i can put something of my very self and it is a task no longer,it is… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition… — Erin Willett Copy Share Image
In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology...… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The night belonged to the bold, to the crazed and to the artist--often one and the same” — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with… — John Kurtz Copy Share Image
The people of U.P. are very simple and grounded. They take pleasure in admiring arts and cinema. This is why it is… — Hiten Tejwani Copy Share Image
The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love,… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something. — Jet Li Copy Share Image
The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art. — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't think about just a hard project; they just created… — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
“Progressive thinking is the art of seeing tomorrow’s solutions in today’s limitations, where others see barriers, the visionary see blueprints for evolution.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they… — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
My kids, I love it when they tell me, 'Abba, I want to be an artist.' And I say, that is awesome...… — Jonny Kim Copy Share Image
Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up,… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change. — Lee Hammond Copy Share Image
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a… — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image