The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several… — Dick Clark Copy Share Image
Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
“When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Napster is great so long as they put out tracks on there that have been officially released. I don't really mind people… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
“Trust me: if it doesn’t match: it will clash! Focusing on a stunning complimentary color instead of a close-but-not-quite-right one is one… — Chantal Larocque Copy Share Image
It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“if I was a painter, and was to paint the American Eagle, how should I do it?...I should want to draw it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear,… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
“To Donna, her art making is her calling; it is necessity, urgency. She relates, “One of my survival skills includes being productive.… — Gwen Blakley Kinsler Copy Share Image
I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic… — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
As for Aamir Khan, he keeps raising the standard with every film. For an artist like me or a newcomer like me,… — Tiger Shroff Copy Share Image
How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I always knew I was going to be an artist. It was a done deal right from when I was very little.… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“may occasionally pay lip-service to their value, but it ultimately has no real use for artists, dancers, poets, self-sufficient farmers, tree lovers,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is an existing model that anyone can hold on to right now. Every [piece of] advice about… — Olof Arnalds Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the… — Jack White Copy Share Image
“In a hundred years they may both be sciences. Fine. But today a person who learns the rules of art well is… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
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