“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous,… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Pretty much any artist that I know of that has found that mentor status, if they're generous and okay to bestow a… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no… — Jim James Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Of course, art in and of itself gives me some feeling of elation or power and is in some way curative. But… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant,… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
“I have never wanted to paint thickly - paint tubes are much too expensive. But one way or another, the painting has… — Jean-Paul Riopelle Copy Share Image
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“I go to art more as something that's going to give me some clue as to how to live your life, or… — Penguin Classics Copy Share Image
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Andy Warhol would like to have been Edie Sedgwick. He would like to have been a charming, well-born débutante from Boston. He… — Jean Stein Copy Share Image
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Corporations have steered the industry into what it wants, and a lot of times they will make artists record what it wants… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I think the best actors in the world are here in New York City. And this city is just so vibrant the… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“By the end of the twentieth century Interpol was ranking art crime as one of the world’s most profitable criminal activities, second… — Laney Salisbury Copy Share Image
There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless… — John Constable Copy Share Image
If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me - because he was an artist, and… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People… — Drake Copy Share Image
I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
“On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
This is the thing: Art is more important than making a show, something that amuses people. Art is something that needs to… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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