I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
The sense of having to be the best at everything gets in the way of anybody doing anything. I put all that… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it… — Kaija Saariaho Copy Share Image
“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people,… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I feel like I spent so much time trying to understand my identity and my identity as an artist. But when all… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
“Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art you must master the craft. If you… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“I can't understand how people can have grown up in the eighties, amidst all this competitive spirit, gangster battles, hiphop - and… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“Every child has known God, Not the God of names, Not the God of don'ts, Not the God who ever does Anything… — Hafiz Copy Share Image
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And one of the things I noticed pretty early on in art school was that my classmates had no notion of an… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is… — Ursus Wehrli Copy Share Image
Whether it's a song or a television show, or a book or poem, art is the thing that cracks me open and… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
“For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see… — Iris van Herpen Copy Share Image
They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
While filling color to someone's life to whom you really love & care, make sure to fill little color of joy &… — Navnath Godse Copy Share Image
The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
“Art is love-times-love; the creator loves it and his audience adores it. To miss the sensation of loving art is to miss… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt… — Kari Matchett Copy Share Image
I was in film school, we were making a movie, and the teacher told me 'You cannot make movies like this.' I… — Darby Allin Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
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