“What is it about it, anyway? Stealing.’ ‘It’s …’ It’s an instinct, I want to say. ... It’s art. But she would… — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
Discipleship is the art and science of helping people find, follow and fully become like Jesus. Discipleship happens as God's people show… — Brandon Cox Copy Share Image
“Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the… — Piper Payne Copy Share Image
“He considered the medium to be secondary: first and foremost was the idea. Only after an artist had settled on and developed… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to be in predominantly white situations in the educational system. My parents are educators, and I went… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the thought that hovering behind my work is a unifying belief system, just as there is behind Egyptian or Ancient… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“True art, when it happens to us, challenges the 'I' that we are. A love-parallel would be just; falling in love challenges… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Movies are so hard to get made - every step of the way of making a movie has obstacles. If you don't… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
“Next to the word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our hearts,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
“I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But artists aren’t the only marginalized folks controlling real estate. Think about the colonizing role that wealthy white gay men have played… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
“and I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. For the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I've been compiling a list of art project ideas for a long time. These are ideas of things I would love to… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
“Art is a communication informing man of his own dignity, and of the value of his life, whether in joy or grief,… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
“I hated [the commercial art studio] because advertising is telling lies, basically, making crap goods look terrific, and I felt I was… — Gerald Scarfe Copy Share Image
I had always considered myself a martial artist who fights rather than a fighter who learned martial arts - although I probably… — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
What I think is dreadful about art is the way it's related to the money afterward. Not when you do it... But… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once… — Clara Shih Copy Share Image
My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image