Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities,… — Stephen Furst Copy Share Image
It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like… — Ben Schnetzer Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate. — Seymour Chwast Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
“The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry,… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts. — Roberta Flack Copy Share Image
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher,… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
“The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.” — Antonin Carême Copy Share Image
Any specialist will tell you they want to be known as automatic. And the same could be said for a performer in… — Justin Tucker Copy Share Image
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Conversing with children is a fine art… An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was… — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the… — Ed Engle Copy Share Image
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side,… — Russell James Copy Share Image
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
