The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
As an artist, I am here to get involved in meaningful films. But that does not mean only films like 'Arabikkadha' should… — Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
As an artist, what you do is you put out material constantly. Whether it's films, or TV shows, music... and you know,… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a… — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main… — George Lois Copy Share Image
“A powerfully imagined event can evoke the same emotions as a real event. Few artists would contradict this, and yet there no… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
It's the art of letting go: no longer hanging onto the past and looking forward to the future. But don't think it… — Amaya Copy Share Image
Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
Regardless of its purpose, the humpback-whale song is the most complex piece of nonhuman composition on earth. Whether it's art, prayer, or… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It’s… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
Machines taking over jobs - it's the history of civilization. Replacing farm animals, old forms of manual labor, now taking over small,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
I don't care about being a pioneer. People act like it would be cool to be a pioneer. I'm okay to be… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence… — Peter London Copy Share Image
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“For the fact is that neither the grammarian nor any other person of skill ever makes a mistake in so far as… — Plato Copy Share Image
It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he… — Ben Gazzara Copy Share Image
If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t… — Mirka Mora Copy Share Image
There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you… — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It's the art of war. You have to lock yourself… — Anthony Joshua Copy Share Image
Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Only someone who doesn’t understand art tells an artist their art somehow failed. How the fuck can art fail? Art can’t be… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
“Bad art, for Niemeyer, was not just that which promotes immorality, but, in an even deeper sense, promotes unreality—the fantasy that leaves… — Gregory Wolfe Copy Share Image
