We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Let it be said that the makeup artist at '90210' made me look better for the fake red carpet than I've ever… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the… — Brad Stephan Gregory Copy Share Image
[Role of Dr.Strange] gives me an excuse as an actor to be learning with my character, which is something you can do… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I have been fortunate enough to see many places of this earth and most certainly a lot of art, but I would… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
I think that young people should embrace artists like Lemmy from Motorhead but also be open to different styles. — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
“In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE"... To whom?.. To where?...… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
“In the fall nature informs of its artistic side. It continues to confirm the beauty of the world. Nature is art perfected.” — Nature is art Fall season Art informs Copy Share Image
I was a complete anomaly in this business. I didn't fit into the Hema Malini-Zeenat Aman commercial cinema mould, neither the Shabana… — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. --Havelock Ellis — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I made my living as an actor, and I love acting, so I'm an actor. But that gets you in a lot… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
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