Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'm an artist, a performer... There's an art to what we do to the wrestling... I don't want to really fight anybody. — Mickie James Copy Share Image
Street art belongs on the street. But I'm a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing. — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
I just want to act - commercial, mainstream, niche or art - my choices are not defined by labels. — Diana Penty Copy Share Image
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth- That God is our friend! By that truth meaning is given To… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in whichis our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipicethe… — Wyndham Lewis (1882â1957 Copy Share Image
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I believe there is a moment growing up when you build your own mood board. You do a collage - you collect… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the… — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that… — Doseone Copy Share Image
Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence.… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums… — No I.D Copy Share Image
Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts. — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I just want to have folks be comfortable and just share and have a good conversation. To me, that's kind of a… — Rich Eisen Copy Share Image
To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. — Jay Sankey Copy Share Image
There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste? — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
Bangladesh, despite producing big upsets in the past, doesn't have the art of beating big teams consistently. — Sourav Ganguly Copy Share Image
Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables, from their being in close relationship with beauty and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
It's not what you're going to take from martial arts, it's what you have to give to martial arts — Saulo Ribeiro Copy Share Image
The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it. — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
I think Berlin is always inspiring. I love being in Berlin. It feels like such a cool city, with so much culture… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image