“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
“Given the way creation unfolds, how it builds to ever higher and higher works of art, can there be any doubt that… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
He make my pussy sing like it's a mozart. He say the pussy pretty, it look like show art. — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person. — Christie Brinkley Copy Share Image
My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata,… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live… — Derek Hough Copy Share Image
It was really cool to get to know her as a person and artist. And getting to act with her after a… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
iStockphoto was revolutionizing the stock photography industry, establishing a whole new business model and democratizing stock art for everyone. It made sense… — Bruce Livingstone Copy Share Image
I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
Shooting is a lost art, but nobody wants to see nobody shoot all day. You want to see somebody break somebody off… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
“Duchamp had taken art to its logical conclusion. Every act of perception is art. So everything that perceives is an artist.” — Chris F. Westbury Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music. — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“As Adam Gopnik remarked in The New Yorker, “Post-modernist art is, above all, post-audience art.” In” — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Ballet is an incredible art, but it can be a bit elitist, which is a really big turn off to me. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others. — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show. — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I… — Tea Leoni Copy Share Image
When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The rocks were really big around the mountains and at times some rocks seemed as if they had been sculpted by some… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist… — Wendy Ewald Copy Share Image
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image