“I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree... Yet, O my palm-tree, be… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been… — Cory Arcangel Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've heard pop artists do some Christmas songs, and I haven't fully cared for them. They weren't the traditional… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things.… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
“HOWEVER skilled and strong art thou, my foe, However fierce is thy relentless hate Though firm thy hand, and strong thy aim… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“This is not a con game in the criminal sense, in which con artists deliberately dupe the suckers. Instead it's a form… — David F. Labaree Copy Share Image
It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
There is a Nina Simone quote, 'It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.' This quote is everything to me and… — Raye Copy Share Image
What I am most proud of with the book On to the Next Dream is how I turned an intensely emotional experience… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't need to be fixed,it only needs to be balanced.And the art of balance demands you tread lightly,not leap ahead… — Tarun Tejpal Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I often wonder why we don't have an English word for 'genre.' People on arts programmes always have to use the word… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
Many artists would want a major label. But, if someone made you big, it doesn't mean they're no longer good enough when… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions…… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success.… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
“I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is really willing.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and… — John Marin Copy Share Image
... dissatisfaction with one's self and dissatisfaction with the world - is necessary - it is one of the prime things that… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
I was trying to make my name just Artist in the beginning, but it was weird at first, because I wasn't an… — A Boogie wit da Hoodie Copy Share Image
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their… — Richard Williams Copy Share Image
