The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
After I finished 'The Darkest Minds' series, I knew I wanted to take a risk and work on something completely different -… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided: the Ministry of Truth, which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You kind of notice what's going on in your body, and you can kind of feel a certain tightening, or fear, which… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the general interest in art among the Japanese is very low compared to that of Western countries. I would love to… — Yusaku Maezawa Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gift -absolute gifts- which have not been acquired by one's effort. And,… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending -… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
I'm going to be writing to British artists, saying just this: File sharing's not OK for British music. We need to find… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a… — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the… — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Pam was a struggling artist who made everyone's life difficult. She only wore black and after becoming acquainted with her I couldn't… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has… — John Walford Copy Share Image
I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous,… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
“Mulling on the page is an artless art form. It is fooling around. It is doodling. It is the way that ideas… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you’re convinced as an artist of what you’re doing the only move is to, no matter what people say or what… — Zedd Copy Share Image
Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no one's watching. Dance is the only… — Ted Shawn Copy Share Image
A lot of new artists, especially girl artists, feel pressure to be so 'media perfect' and 'trained.' I'm intelligent, but I don't… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
“do they not tell us more of the real spirit of the Italian Renaissance, of the dream of Savonarola and of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Whether you dance, draw, make music, shoot field goals, build houses, tune engines, or sit around all day watching television, you are… — Scott Edmund Miller Copy Share Image
I always thought it would be a great thing to do an art carwash. So you can actually go and get your… — Kenny Scharf Copy Share Image
Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As an introvert, you have to spend a lot of time with me and then little bits of my personality will come… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she… — Peter York Copy Share Image
