I was always a little bit of a collector and a hoarder. And whenever I got involved in anything, whatever it was… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get… — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
Fashion week is very inspiring, and you can't look at things one dimensionally. And I think that everyone who works in this… — Mark Indelicato Copy Share Image
There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable… — John Updike Copy Share Image
All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I remember the university as being very encouraging, especially to experimentation. I think you always get a lot of musicians in any… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
“What is it about it, anyway? Stealing.’ ‘It’s …’ It’s an instinct, I want to say. ... It’s art. But she would… — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
“He considered the medium to be secondary: first and foremost was the idea. Only after an artist had settled on and developed… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the… — Piper Payne Copy Share Image
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Discipleship is the art and science of helping people find, follow and fully become like Jesus. Discipleship happens as God's people show… — Brandon Cox Copy Share Image
I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to be in predominantly white situations in the educational system. My parents are educators, and I went… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
“The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Next to the word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our hearts,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Movies are so hard to get made - every step of the way of making a movie has obstacles. If you don't… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the thought that hovering behind my work is a unifying belief system, just as there is behind Egyptian or Ancient… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“True art, when it happens to us, challenges the 'I' that we are. A love-parallel would be just; falling in love challenges… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Art is a communication informing man of his own dignity, and of the value of his life, whether in joy or grief,… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
I've been compiling a list of art project ideas for a long time. These are ideas of things I would love to… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
“and I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. For the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
“But artists aren’t the only marginalized folks controlling real estate. Think about the colonizing role that wealthy white gay men have played… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
