To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We intuitively reject art when the cost to make it is less than the cost to buy it.” — Elizabeth Hyde Stevens Copy Share Image
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing. — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Writing is a place and getting there is the real art,” Otto Cristóbal Almeida.” — Samuel Zamarripa Copy Share Image
“The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb' (Andre Breton qtd. p. 55)” — Christina Burrus Copy Share Image
As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“No artist wants to stumble, certainly not in front of their audience, but sometimes that's what it takes” — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood. — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business,… — Dev Anand Copy Share Image
“Art has now done for Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow something they could never achieve in life: it has taken a shark-eyed… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
Here's something weird, though: I loved Jimi's music so much that I would never perform it for people. Throughout my teens and… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Watch and enjoy Mixed Martial Arts, and if some people are thinking about doing it, they must be very careful and think… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
As a black person on the outside, because there's so much black art and so much of black people's work circulating, so… — Kelela Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“. . . no good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence.… — Jørn Utzon Copy Share Image