Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Most of the creative industries have been deskilled by these really powerful ideologies of punk in music and Warhol in the visual… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where… — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Because for me to go fully experimental, it would turn into an artist book actually. And I'm not opposed to that. But… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Hogarth ranks among those pictorial creators who have discovered the expressive force of the brushstroke as well as of color and its… — Rene Huyghe Copy Share Image
“In my school, no consideration is given to anything unreasonable; the heart of the matter is to use the power of the… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by… — Alla Osipenko Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“When a man devotes himself body and spirit to a single object, if he has training and aptitude, no matter how mediocre… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Now I'm sixty-one... sixty-two, pretty soon. It's a really interesting age. Now we have women of your age, and coming up, and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It… — Hartman Rector, Jr Copy Share Image
I think designers are starting to realize that we're all in the same industry. We're making clothes - we aren't saving the… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I don't think talent has anything to do with inspiration. Inspiration creates talent. People prioritize innate talent too much. It gives them… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
“Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of… — Maggie Macnab Copy Share Image
If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May stand yet,… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Being a kid with black skin in South Central Los Angeles, in a part of the world where opportunity didn't necessarily knock… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think that the whole experience of living, breathing, thinking, and being lost in wonderment is, for me, that of being an… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
Relax. Knowing when to work and when to rest is key ... Allow your body to rejuvenate and be happy with who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are… — Marcella Hazan Copy Share Image
“Tell me, I don't know much about martial arts... But what does it mean to be strong? Is it something you can… — Bisco Hatori Copy Share Image
“Some people sought to lead. Most did not. Some people sought to star on television, or show in art museums, or become… — Steve Bein Copy Share Image
Some people say I do it too much, but I'm always asking the artist questions. Sometimes - especially with new artists -… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image