All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder. — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
My sister has the heart of an artist with a hatchet and an eye patch. And I, we both now know, have… — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?"… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply… — Donald Justice Copy Share Image
Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I don't have the psychological stamina to last under artistic compromises over a prolonged period of time. I get hostile and vindictive.… — Pernell Roberts Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
“Food," Ninette said into the silence, "is a kind of art. Like all arts, it can be simple. or it can be… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Music, art, and literature are inseparable for me. How does "composition" evolve in a music and art context? It's a question we… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
“Wait-you mean the Mall, as in a bunch of museums in DC that we would wander around and I'd pretend like I… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Yes, a lot of European cinema and a lot of independent films and art-house stuff. She is a photographer. She is a… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists,… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist. — Bobby Sherman Copy Share Image
For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost… — Jack Beal Copy Share Image
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Very early on, when I was in my twenties, Steve Jobs convinced me to quit college. He talked to me after I… — Bobby Kotick Copy Share Image
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love! — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the… — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I think I just have to be myself. No one can write the songs I do, and no one can sing the… — Astrid S Copy Share Image
As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
“Part of the artist's job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional.” — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
“Art can bring us consolation as individuals,” he said, “but it is powerless against reality.” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
