One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for artists to get their flowers. As artists, sometimes we do be in a dark space, and… — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
“From the 13th century until 1737, Florence was ruled by the wealthy and powerful Medici family. The Medicis were successful in business… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
When you see something very beautiful that's real, like a flower, it seems fake. And when you see a beautiful flower handmade… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Being movie director you've got the art department, you've got the actors, you've got the camera department, you've got make-up and hair,… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way… — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
If you're good at the art and you wanna make money, then it's fine. But if you're just doing it because you… — Bishop Nehru Copy Share Image
While I was still going to embrace social media, I knew I had to do things that nobody else was doing. I… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
Find something that you want to do when you're 60. Find your passion. Your passion, your work, whatever it is that you… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
“Though the extractive institutions that the Mayas created produced sufficient wealth for the cities to flourish and the elite to become wealthy… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
“What the young writer needs to develop, to achieve his goal of becoming a great artist, is not a set of aesthetic… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism.… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
The last word always belongs to the audience... that blessed connection... that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring… — Ruth Cracknell Copy Share Image
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I just feel like, at any moment, a drag or a trans or a gender-diverse artist that doesn't fit in a box… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
“To me reading is an almost sacred activity and the great novel is its high mass. The novel is so deeply powerful… — Gregory Day Copy Share Image
...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
As an artist, it's so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“Art, their father had frequently told them, was exactly that: to make art is the realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Nudity in art was rarely contested by the church until recently. It was not explicitly condemned until the anti-Protestant Council of Trent… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
“The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Ndiawar is bent to an open drawer. 'Your new art therapy person,' he says to Yang. Yang looks Day in the eye.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I would say if you have a dream - and whether that is you want to be some sort of artist, or… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
“Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image