Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Growing up with music as a kid - I used to feel like artists were writing songs about me falling in love. — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I consider that sex is part of life as much as architecture, fashion, art or food. Sex is life, simple. And I… — Olivier Zahm Copy Share Image
“An artist's eye can take the spiritual and bring it down to earth. Remember the eye is the window to the soul.” — by Elisabeth Musser Copy Share Image
Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist,… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no… — Henry de Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Superb Love Quote By A Broken Lover: You hurt me more than I deserve. It is just because I loved You more… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules ...… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much - I don't want to say infatuated,… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
I don't know many artists who've managed to go a career without bringing these things up. Saying the word 'God,' 'Jesus' -… — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
I went to art college for two years and I absolutely loved it. I was this shy, kind of fuzzy-haired idiot from… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Even though I'm not actually performing in the works, I love the theatrical and have this fan relationship to showbiz. And one… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fashion is not just about what we wear, but...fashion is also a business. It is an art, it's a career that involves… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Non-violent ecological activism, scientific research and art are pillars of my experience. But I am also a story-teller. I merge science, and… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine! — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“It's of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It's… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing… — Kenwa Mabuni Copy Share Image
Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community. — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things. — Christo Copy Share Image
