Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom. — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives… — Lucy Liu Copy Share Image
“Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“any form of expression that ceases to be an experience and becomes an art form loses its glowing divinity” — Jo M. Sekimonyo Copy Share Image
Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists. — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“If the two meanings of 'heart' are 'center' and 'part,' then the word 'art' also forms a perplexing doubleness: it is something… — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within I am awake… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
“Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable masks of black frock coat and veil,… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Good art is like a sexy pair of lips—it has the potential to say so much, but prefers to have you do… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a competition, or a fear. Writing is an art, a passion, a love.” — Kirsty-Anne Still Copy Share Image
The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world. — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. — Ralph Richardson Copy Share Image
Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists. — F. Gary Gray Copy Share Image
It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself. — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses. — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
