All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter.… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste,… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I thank God that you know the art of tearing yourself apart - I mean the way to humble yourself truly by… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
“I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can't. But I can say we lived. Our love for… — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
The whole impetus behind going solo was an artistic inspiration in the sense that, obviously, success is fantastic. But as one becomes… — Jennifer Nettles Copy Share Image
Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and… — Eva Simons Copy Share Image
In the arts, in places where you're not going to save lives or save species, I think there's no reason to play… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
Simmer down, simmer down They say we're too young now to amount to anything else But look around We work too damn… — 5 Seconds Of Summer Copy Share Image
The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
Museums are important. Design and art schools are important because they show how it should be done at the highest level of… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
I need an artist to be a dog. You know what I'm saying? I need an artist to think for themselves. I… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Latino patriots have served and fought in every war. They are artists, dancers, singers, poets and journalists, teachers and scientists. More and… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
DYT, under the direction of Paula Garfield, was my first experience of deaf performing arts and I loved my time there. It… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I like art; if I could just draw pictures all day, I would, but I can't; I'm horrible. I practiced at it,… — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary art need not be overtly political in content; what is more important is that it demand a new means of perception… — Ann Daly Copy Share Image
“She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land… — Stephanie Kallos Copy Share Image
“In previous centuries, the Church was the great controller, dictating morality, stifling free expression and posing as conservator of all great art… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief; Verily, with every difficulty there is relief. Therefore, when thou art free (from thine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aww man, growing up listening to the sort of music that I listen to, there were a lot of times in class… — Rhea Ripley Copy Share Image
I've established myself as a proper artist. And it's ridiculous when anyone questions my credibility - I've had four number one singles… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
An artist strives to frame his ideals in an image; to challenge his audience and to make his vision immortal. But the… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery.… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up like Quentin Tarantino, watching esoteric art films at the video store. I'd go to the multiplex and see… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature.… — Montgomery Clift Copy Share Image
I'm really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They've been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me… — Daya Copy Share Image
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
I went to art school and interned at DC, and then did the band. When that stuff comes up, you've gotta embrace… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing… — George Duke Copy Share Image
As an actor, it seems like we're always trying to get a job, so when you actually have a job, it's just… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
I like being connected to young people, or younger people who are trying to figure out the language of film, bringing theorists… — Matthew Porterfield Copy Share Image