“I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once… — Clara Shih Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
What I think is dreadful about art is the way it's related to the money afterward. Not when you do it... But… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
“I hated [the commercial art studio] because advertising is telling lies, basically, making crap goods look terrific, and I felt I was… — Gerald Scarfe Copy Share Image
I had always considered myself a martial artist who fights rather than a fighter who learned martial arts - although I probably… — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They were there before… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Being a full-time musician back before I had my son, it was sort of too much 'me' all the time. I felt… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
We, this nation of ours, could be the richest nation in the world. We could be the freest nation in the world… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“THE ARTS The arts are about the qualities of human experiences. Through music, dance, visual arts, drama, and the rest, we give… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
We, as band, always positioned ourselves between art and entertainment, which often works against us - Fischerspooner is between business models. Art… — Casey Spooner Copy Share Image
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College… — Jenna Ushkowitz Copy Share Image
The journey has moulded me into the person I am today. The journey of my mixed martial arts experience has been filled… — Robert Whittaker Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
“Typical artist,' said Granny. 'He just painted the showy stuff in the front... And what about these cherubs? We're not going to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so… — Ann Lauterbach Copy Share Image
All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another.… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.… — Gosta Mittag-Leffler Copy Share Image
“Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
Artists, in theory, should not be limited to their personal experience, culture, identity, and worldview. But they must also accept that the… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
'The Outsider' is a culmination of a lot of things I've been working diligently toward as a recording artist. Hopefully it will… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image