Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an… — W. Earl Brown Copy Share Image
Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could -… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Keep evolving. Keep reading plays, doing plays, but also be sure to expand your horizons as much as possible. You only have… — Gideon Glick Copy Share Image
What was exciting to me in talking to Kogonada was I was just very convinced that he was a very real and… — John Cho Copy Share Image
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away… — Confucius Copy Share Image
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them….Ill fares the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas;… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Due to the world I've been part of in creating art for so many years, I feel really connected to pop culture… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Cyril: surely you would acknowledge that art expresses the temper of its age, the spirit of its time, the moral and social… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The internet, like social media, seems to me to depend on how you use it, where you spend your time on it.… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
“Happy the man...with a natural gift for practising the right one [art] from the start-- poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface… — Will Burtin Copy Share Image
Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I'm amazed by how angry people get about new art, particularly new sculptures in their town. The people who hate new sculpture… — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure about all the particulars that led to this moment. Do I believe life is a series of dots to… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“When it comes to forming opinions on works of art, people look to others. Most people end up liking paintings, songs and… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes… — L.A. Reid Copy Share Image
It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want… — Ice T Copy Share Image
“None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I am an alien. I start a lot of relationships with artists because of what I'm capable of doing with the machine… — AraabMuzik Copy Share Image
I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up,… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's… — Jeff Melvoin Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image