Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own,… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is a certain vulnerability to creating art and putting it out in the world for the first time, but again, there's… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me… — Jenni Rivera Copy Share Image
There are artists that actually don't like going into the studio. They get mad when people say they've got a session. I'm… — Jeremih Copy Share Image
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Heartbreak allows us to also experience joy and love but you have to walk through heartbreak to even know what joy is.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically. — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea. — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior… — David Elliott Copy Share Image
My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated. — Tsukahara Bokuden Copy Share Image
I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
As an artist, you're very sensitive about your art. And you feel like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Am I making… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those… — Lyor Cohen Copy Share Image
“All art is, indeed, a monotony in external things for the sake of an interior variety, a sacrifice of gross effects to… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
