The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something… — Mateus Ward Copy Share Image
When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking. — Malik Yoba Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
I so wish to work with Sanjay Leela Bhansali because his creativity is of a different level. His vision, his style of… — Ishita Dutta Copy Share Image
I find inspiration in what artists and regular people on the street wear, but I'm also very influenced by what I like… — Kygo Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It was the end for me. And yet not an end. In all the years which have since elapsed she remains the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I don't spend a ton of time interacting, but I feel like I probably do more than most rappers/artists. I just find… — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful… — Saadat Hasan Manto Copy Share Image
To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Business was simply the name given to art of taking money from others without using force.” — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads… — Paul Russo Copy Share Image
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“The finest art of communication is not learning how to express your thoughts. It is learning how to draw out the thoughts… — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us. — David Amram Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“It seems to me a work of art is the evidence offered by a fantastically observant witness” — John Banville Copy Share Image
“If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.” — Constantin S Stanislavski Copy Share Image
To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'. — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything… — David Finch Copy Share Image
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I guess at my core, I'm an artist. And so the opportunity to utilize my imagination, create things and share stories is… — Judy Norton Copy Share Image
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
“I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
“[...] what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.” — Miles J. Unger Copy Share Image
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department! — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don't want… — Hayley Kiyoko Copy Share Image
![“It was the end for me. And yet not an end. In all the years which have since elapsed she remains the woman I loved and lost, the unattainable one [...] I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love…” quote by Henry Miller](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/43d/henry-miller-179_art_it-was-the-end-for-me-and-yet-not-an-end_686884.jpg)
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