When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I just feel like, at any moment, a drag or a trans or a gender-diverse artist that doesn't fit in a box… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
“But I think it will bring you something besides this, something that is the knowledge of real strength in art: not that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
I think arts should be liberal, people should be allowed to express themselves. It happens in most democratic countries in the world,… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions. — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears. — Tyler Shields Copy Share Image
I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is… — JR Copy Share Image
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
When you savour and relish every moment, then you learn the art of preserving yourself. — Rekha Copy Share Image
It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer. — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
Sex is the great amateur art. The professional, male or female, is frowned on: he or she misses the point, and spoils… — David Cort Copy Share Image
I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar, it makes you gag. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
The reason why I'm popular as an artist in this country is because it suits the psyche of the nation at this… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time. — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
