The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City,… — Marc Davis Copy Share Image
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Multiculturalism helps immigrants postpone the pain of letting go of the anachronistic and inappropriate. It locks people into corrupt, inefficient, and unjust… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends… — William DeWitt Hyde Copy Share Image
Before I had my son, I became obsessed by this painting I'd seen in an art gallery. It was a lot of… — Nicola Walker Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
“The compound feelings have vanished, the mixture of colors in an art shop, sixteen shades of eggshell. Yellow and blue make green.… — Malin Persson Giolito Copy Share Image
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one:… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
For the kid in me that had a rockier edge and wanted to be Stevie Nicks, it's been fulfilling that I've met… — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera.… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox… — Minor White Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
My area of research is something that in all fairness has no practical usability whatsoever and the thing is I'm often asked… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by… — Billy Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I wish to try my hand at a novel," he said. "Just scribbling, I assure you, but it strikes me as such… — Kyle Muntz Copy Share Image
Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I always like to talk about how important space is. Art is in the spaces. Anybody can sing a note; it takes… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The idea that Aphrodite was simply a representation of carnal lust is the product of much later representations of her. In fact,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“With a leer of mingled sweetness and slyness; with one eye on the future, one on the bride, and an arch expression… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
Only one percent of artists are really profitable and successful. Beyonce is one‑tenth of one percent. When we talk about what she… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
Making art can be maddening at times and frustrating and not always rewarding, frequently not rewarding. But you do it because you… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Fashion is kinda a joke. I don't get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it's one big art project, just… — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
It's not my job at the Institute to teach where people are in the art world - in the world of art… — Lawrence Jordan Copy Share Image
“My favourite book is my dictionary. It excites me. Each time I open it, the endless possibilities come tumbling out. It’s Alice… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm always composing and trying to learn more about the business. In today's market, it's more important than ever to be self-sufficient… — Antoniette Costa Copy Share Image
“Disappointment over love affairs, generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
We still live in a world of such gross injustice and inequality, that only privileged people like ourselves can afford to think… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
It seems to me that awakening to the full potential of what your life might be - beyond the possibilities of your… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
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A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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