But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In the '70s, there was no shortage of people taking themselves too seriously, as 'artistes,' if you will. I think we all… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
“Within Western art the dead white body has often been a sight of veneration, an object of beauty. While Christ on the… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
I'm not so interested in this series of ruptures, where minimalism took over pop art, and then neo-expressionism was a triumph over… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
“I never cheat. I practice Gamesmanship - the art of winning games without actually cheating.” — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Sannyas is the art of flying... the art that stops the process of gravitation and starts the process of grace. All that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community,… — Floyd Norman Copy Share Image
Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.' — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
“We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“Well then – I see two ways of letting things take their course – Create one’s own sensations with the help of… — Jacques Vache Copy Share Image
I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting… — John Musker Copy Share Image
The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day… — John Cage Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist. — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
“The Arts, Hobbies, Interests and Pastimes, have served as a measurement of a civilized society over the ages, and a mark of… — Alastair Agutter Copy Share Image
Broadway needs to let go of any fear that it won't succeed and take a knee. There's this rhetoric about being grateful… — Okieriete Onaodowan Copy Share Image
