“had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze."… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first… — Grandmaster Flash Copy Share Image
The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come… — PSY Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words --… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear… — Orlan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
You know, martial arts is all about respect and discipline and it's always been about that. But again, people are starting to… — Alexander Volkanovski Copy Share Image
I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which… — Doseone Copy Share Image
Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“They stood, a family, and walked out of the mall, into the sunlight, seeking to rearrange the shape of their surroundings, to… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to… — Jack White Copy Share Image
“Reflection is time sensitive; and with the realization that the 'present' and 'future' can be altered, it is also purposeful, for we… — Patricia H. Graham Copy Share Image
I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because… — Roger Bart Copy Share Image
I love working with young artists. Jacob Latimore was the first kid that I auditioned. After he walked out, I turned to… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
Television was restricted by my parents. They encouraged reading more than anything. It wasn't done in a let's-get-educated kind of way, it… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with… — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image
“No,” he said after a pause, “the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
This Catholic thing, I think what it does is it makes a place for mystery in a person. And even when the… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There have been projects out there involving my father, but they've lacked a complete understanding of his philosophies and artistry. They haven't… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
“One of the most magical things about photography happens when you place one picture next to another picture to create new meanings.… — Todd Hido Copy Share Image
Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
If you read Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," you know that he likes to create leverage, he likes to… — Wendy Sherman Copy Share Image
Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
