Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As… — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
“...it was ludicrous to think that we could just talk our way out of shame, that shame was necessary, that it prevented… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting,… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
People of Pakistan don't want a ban on Indian content in their country, but it is their politicians who want it. In… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris.… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions.… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
What smells strongly of crap to one generation - Victorian penny dreadfuls, the music of the Archies, the Lone Ranger radio show,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation… — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Artists should imprint their handwriting on the work, because if they give a piece to a fabrication studio, the craftsmen there may… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are… — William James Copy Share Image
It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
I think I had the good fortune to watch Sly the Artist [Sylvester Stallone]; to watch him in all arenas. As an… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers.… — Constantinos C. Markides Copy Share Image
The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
"The way I feel about music -- any song, any style -- is that there is no right and wrong, only true… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I think we're at a really critical time in terms of art, and I think it's totally possible to have a project… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There's guys like Daniel Bryan and CM Punk that incorporated mixed martial arts submissions and moves into professional wrestling. I feel like… — Matt Riddle Copy Share Image
I have people say that they love how I keep them off balance as to what is real or not real about… — Amy King Copy Share Image
“Economics is the art of allocating scarce goods among competing demands. The conceit of Marxism was the thought that in Communism, economics… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image