The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
I had a desperate need to be Van Gogh or something. Some tremendous artist. Jack's so successful, what's wrong with me, why… — Kyle Gass Copy Share Image
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“The earliest corporations to provide major funding to museums were tobacco and oil companies, which likely sought to polish tarnished images by… — Cynthia Freeland Copy Share Image
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, "I don't like this painting." But then I wake up in the morning, look at it… — Rebecca Horn Copy Share Image
The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what… — Chuck Schuldiner Copy Share Image
Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
“FV: Hasn't all art, in a way, submitted to words - reduced itself to the literary...admitted its failure through all the catalogues… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people… — Goapele Copy Share Image
From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
When I commit to working with an artist, I give them as much respect as I would like and if I'm not… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think ultimately, people are selfish in that department [blues], in a good way - the reason we're attracted to art is… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Musically, I'm always gonna take it a little farther, and Lord willing, people are gonna get that and understand that: that there's… — Big K.R.I.T Copy Share Image
Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down… — Arno Hintjens Copy Share Image
It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole,… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous,… — Clive James Copy Share Image
The thing you can't underestimate is the true fan's intimacy. So Lady Gaga or anybody's true fan, I don't think they're going… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Introducing a great artist, Alexander Wainwright in THe Fate of Pryde. In his landscapes, Alex expresses the totality of everything in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
My fingertips are my favorite makeup brush! I especially like to apply my eye shadow with them, get it nice and smudgy.… — Josie Maran Copy Share Image
I don't paint over my paintings with black paint. I paint black paintings. It isn't because I'm sad, just as I didn't… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with… — Jeremy Begbie Copy Share Image
...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Nobody else was saying what he said on air, and sometimes he pushed the envelope when he said the newest Jay Z… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
I am more likely to get paid for my art if it's presented alongside a white artist, so the questions around value… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
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![“I think ultimately, people are selfish in that department [blues], in a good way - the reason we're attracted to art is because it somehow reflects us. And I think, ultimately, we're a tribal people by nature. We're not individualistic. We almost like to hear that there's other people in a worse…” quote by Glen Hansard](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/538/glen-hansard-13793_art_i-think-ultimately-people-are-selfish-in_186053.png)
![“It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not just the sound, but the emotion, the technique of the singing.” quote by Robert Davi](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/09b/robert-davi-17031_able_it-didn-t-feel-organic-and-tito-gobbi-wa_2689130.jpg)
