The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Labels are curators of taste, and the best ones know how to monetize what an artist is trying to do. — El-P Copy Share Image
I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child - writing songs for myself and for other artists. — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.” — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you… — Edward Elgar Copy Share Image
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Violence is central in our lives, a constant and unavoidable reality. Experience is not a linear construct moving from one point to… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
I was applying to the art school, but there was a checklist that said I had to do either production design or… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. — John Berger Copy Share Image
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them. — Katharine Susannah Prichard Copy Share Image
They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century. — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
No matter how incredible you are as a person, as an artist, if you have all these negative people around you, it's… — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business. — Robert J. Flaherty Copy Share Image
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Consumers have always found ways to copy art, from dubbing cassette tapes and VHS to recording a special remix off the radio… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art. — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Pro-Tip: Ask for one clear action per panel. Don't ask your artist to do two, three, or more things in a shot.… — Dan Slott Copy Share Image
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful. — Haley Bennett Copy Share Image
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That… — Pink Copy Share Image
“If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from… — David Cage Copy Share Image
