In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Every day I'm getting shaped and molded. Keepin' on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more… — Lil Baby Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
There's a phrase that art is something created by the few and admired by the many. Now it's not created by the… — Eddie Rabbitt Copy Share Image
When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection,… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
“Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm one of those artists that people take my music without my consent. People love to snatch my music and do things… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
“Don't imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than the art of music, or that you can please the expert… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?] Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness,… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise;… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor.… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do… — Saif Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Where I know I wanna go is being consistent on business, and that's just making another artist, my clothing line - capitalizing… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was… — Jody Watley Copy Share Image
“If you want to master the art of the sentence, you must first accept a somewhat unpleasant truth--something a lot of writers… — June Casagrande Copy Share Image
I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Jive never saw any value in me as a long-term artist. Even as I was doing it they were like, 'You're not… — Too Short Copy Share Image
That's what the best art does, it starts the conversation. What you may see in a scene or a line isn't what… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
The people who successfully start independent businesses (franchises, I think are a different thing) do it because we have no real choice… — Seth Copy Share Image
Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician —… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
“Just as Shakespeare filled his works with straightforward storylines, sex, violence, and bawdy jokes for the “groundlings” (the uneducated peasants who stood… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Well, every art requires appreciation, doesn't it? I mean people who paint, sculpt, or write books want an audience. that's the reason… — Margaret Powell Copy Share Image
You can describe [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self] as a manifesto of sorts. I saw it… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening… — Gail Ann Dorsey Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, all my friends are musical wizards and in great bands, but yeah, it really skipped over me. It's one… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
“In our ascent we were often among the clouds hovering about the mountain, and for a while would be enveloped in fog… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
God knows that we are all artists of life. One day, he gives us a hammer with which to make sculptures, another… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reality cannot be photographed or represented. We can only create a new reality. And my dilemma is how to make art out… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
![“[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?] Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.” quote by Audrey Niffenegger](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/93e/audrey-niffenegger-1298_art_who-are-the-artists-you-admire-surrealis_2325281.jpg)
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![“You can describe [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self] as a manifesto of sorts. I saw it as a pivotal turn, a work that really led me down the avenues that brought me to where I am. That picture was the vehicle that helped me clarify a lot of things and I began to understand that…” quote by Kerry James Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d6b/kerry-james-marshall-5157_art_you-can-describe-portrait-of-the-artist_1969257.jpg)
