We, this nation of ours, could be the richest nation in the world. We could be the freest nation in the world… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Being a full-time musician back before I had my son, it was sort of too much 'me' all the time. I felt… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They were there before… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“THE ARTS The arts are about the qualities of human experiences. Through music, dance, visual arts, drama, and the rest, we give… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another.… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.… — Gosta Mittag-Leffler Copy Share Image
“Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
“The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so… — Ann Lauterbach Copy Share Image
“Typical artist,' said Granny. 'He just painted the showy stuff in the front... And what about these cherubs? We're not going to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The journey has moulded me into the person I am today. The journey of my mixed martial arts experience has been filled… — Robert Whittaker Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
We, as band, always positioned ourselves between art and entertainment, which often works against us - Fischerspooner is between business models. Art… — Casey Spooner Copy Share Image
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College… — Jenna Ushkowitz Copy Share Image
'The Outsider' is a culmination of a lot of things I've been working diligently toward as a recording artist. Hopefully it will… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Artists, in theory, should not be limited to their personal experience, culture, identity, and worldview. But they must also accept that the… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“In The Art of Connection, you will learn simple, yet powerful ways to build trust and rapport for connecting with ease. By… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Everything that was interesting was outside of Poland. Great music, art, film, hippies, Mick Jagger. It was impossible even to dream of… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art,… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“So why did poor artists originally hang around in cafes?" "I don't know. Inspiration from the atmosphere." "Ha! No, you've been tricked,… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“What is the world? What is it for? It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite… — N. D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I don't think paintings of nude women represent all women, but at the same time, I can't fault artists for putting out… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man;… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson's one of my favorite artists of my whole life. In fact, I think he is my favorite. It's one of… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has… — Candida Hofer Copy Share Image