There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
“He didn’t want to feel better. He owed it to what he’d been told to feel worse. That was what living a… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
“If a new movement in art comes along be awake to it, study it, but don’t belong to it. Have a personal… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments. — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music - writing, doing videos, making… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
The Sketchnote Handbook is neither about sketching nor is it about note taking. It's about receiving and processing the world in a… — Stefan G. Bucher Copy Share Image
People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I think that, right now, I am travelling in many different directions in my mind, on where I wanted to be. So… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't… — Bono Copy Share Image
I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Basically, I feel inspired by any artist that seems to want to introduce the world to their likes and perspective rather than… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
I go through every single emotion. My artistic life will likely be shorter than it could be because everything is for real… — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Art is not some inessential frippery - it is the nation's means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. When we… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“If you go to the Rijksmuseum, which I really wanted to do- but who are we kidding, neither of us can walk… — John Green Copy Share Image
“... I think I intuitively suspected that perspective would put me outside the painting. I didn't want that. I wanted to get… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The real artists are those who pick up their age exactly at the point to which it has been carried by preceding… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I came at a time where male artists where dominating, so I had to do something quick to get people's attention. I… — Lady Saw Copy Share Image
Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
The ability of discovering and reading the ideas of people , concerning emotions and feelings, particularly what they feel of happines and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image