If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
And I'm not even just talking artists, every single person in this nation has the right to be themselves, live life go… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you… — Greg Laswell Copy Share Image
When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making… — Polixeni Papapetrou Copy Share Image
I've always thought for myself, that's something I want to focus on - color palette and the use of color. Rather than… — Gucci Westman Copy Share Image
“Cornwallis was a man who could have thrust his hand in a flame if necessary, but not a man to organize the… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Humans have terrible passions that can go either way: create or destroy, it all depends on where they emerge. Art is not… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
So scream your heart out you are the chosen you gotta show them silence is the enemy scream it out loud we… — Papa Roach Copy Share Image
The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Yes, I want to make amazing, enduring albums that are perfect. But I also want to make what I want to make… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
“The Greeks shape bronze statues so real they seem to breathe, And carve cold marble until it almost comes to life. The… — Virgil Copy Share Image
We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
“my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently,… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching… — Jason 'J' Brown Copy Share Image
I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“Cézanne, too, had had enough of psychology. He attended, instead, to color. "If I paint all the little blues and all the… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
My uncles represented a strength and a power I think that to a certain degree I looked up to. But from another… — Willie Herron Copy Share Image
For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life… The object of art is to give life… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“You paint it,” he responds. “You are a specialist in darkness.” I tell him, “I didn’t live through it.” He says, “We… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature –… — Peter Abbs Copy Share Image
People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning.… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of… — Thelma Golden Copy Share Image
