“There's no such thing as great art or poor art. Art is subjective expression. As such, it can be judged only as… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Often I combine many sources to create one painting, so it is not usually one particular experience or moment that leads to… — Rosson Crow Copy Share Image
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
At Pixar, of course, we have all these people, and they're just used to our process now where it's a discussion; it's… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the… — Tyrone Guthrie Copy Share Image
It's not "You might as well,"-it's that art was the only option. My last ayahuasca -vision was a very clear vision that… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple,… — Bernard Meltzer Copy Share Image
I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
“Luigi, the art teacher, holds up his brush, and we all do the same. I’m not quite sure why we’re mirroring his… — Lauren Henderson Copy Share Image
Street artists want to add something to the environment. They consider the audience, whereas graffiti writers don't care about anyone except themselves,… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
You really see that the art world bends over for Hollywood sometimes, in this way that is really grotesque, and the other… — Thomas McDonell Copy Share Image
Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Often dismayed by but generally unflinching in the face of perpetual adversity, he [W.E.B. Du Bois] engaged the battle for equal human… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look -… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The… — Michelangelo Pistoletto Copy Share Image
You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“I think that there is a terrible possibility now, in the World. We may not brush it away, we must look at… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Fifteen minutes of fame doesn't make a career. An article in a magazine, newspaper, interview on television or multiple print ads may… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history. The masses had been desensitized… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image