When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
“Through my history's despite and ruin, I have come to its remainder, and here have made the beginning of a farm intended… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's… — Teresa Amabile Copy Share Image
“When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe. Its introduction to… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
“A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the grunts. They like putting… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We had similar interests with Derek Rowan and Paul Hewson; it sounds really pretentious at 12, 13 year old kids were like… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
“In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Alchemy is the “art of transformation.” • We all have a vibrational set point – one we can raise with intention and… — Michelle Martin Dobbins Copy Share Image
“My friend the philosopher and martial artist Daniele Bolelli once gave me a helpful metaphor. He explained that training was like sweeping… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone,… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
“Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
“Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low!” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ability to download music for free might not be positive for the artists to get royalties, but in some ways it's still… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
I had to learn how to bring the best outta Key! by learning what's going on with him. That's how I approach… — Kenny Beats Copy Share Image
Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
“Whenever there was an opening for a new show, she would invite him; there would be champagne and hors d’oeuvres, women in… — Shari Lapena Copy Share Image
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put… — Hayley Kiyoko Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
