“If there is a main problem in American art today,” says critic Tom Piazza, “it is not that we need the new… — James Bau Graves Copy Share Image
“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process… — Michael Bell Copy Share Image
“Prodigies! Geniuses! Artists! The lumer-lumpen are some of the most sensitive, the most brilliant, the wisest creatures on the earth or inside… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm in the art world so I use the art world a lot - or art world people as actors. I've also… — Michel Auder Copy Share Image
If we see someone, an artist who just does magnificent art, and especially if they're already doing Ghost-related art, we just reach… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I've had several moments in my career where it seemed like I might not age out of the bracket the world wants… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
“We are not defined by our things. Its not our clothes we wear or the cars we own or the art we… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
“Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own… — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
“Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I thought for a long time that within art, that you would come up with an idea, you would labor over it… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
I don't think ever before in the whole of human history has so much art been made, bought, and sold. It's a… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
If an artist has the possibility to contact an infinitely larger public through the pages of a publication, he should try to… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
“The choice is yours.Either way, I will be faultless. So ask yourself, would you rather take credit for an eyesore or for… — Cayla Kluver Copy Share Image
Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music… — Johnny Reid Copy Share Image
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image