Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation. — Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis Copy Share Image
To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“I rather liked him.I asked him to come and see us.' ‘Oh Christ !’ ‘But, Bradley, you mustn’t reject people,you musn't just… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
We made a commitment to making diverse stories with diverse characters brought to life by diverse artists. — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
“Art thou lonely, O my brother? Share thy little with another! Stretch a hand to one unfriended, And the loneliness is ended.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I'm purposeless. I'm making art because I want you to look at that painting and I want it to affect you in… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
“Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
The work of the artist is not so much what you say or what you know, it's recognizing what you know. That's… — Sylvia Plachy Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts. — Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Copy Share Image
The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
“If you stand before a canvas, up close, almost to the point where your nose touches paint, you will see nothing but… — Pen Copy Share Image
I do promotion because I want to do art. I don't do the art because I want to be famous. — Kerli Copy Share Image
Laika's films aim to promote thought, feeling, and connectivity through art, inspired by our shared humanity. We're deeply gratified that the spirit… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
I enjoy football, cricket and I have been watching mixed martial arts for the last five years. — Raj Kundra Copy Share Image
I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
“To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. This task requires deep work.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The only way to eliminate any government choice on what art is worthwhile, what art isn't worthwhile, is to get the government… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
“The different arts reach our brains in different ways; they lodge there with differing ease, at different speeds, with different degrees of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one… — Ben Mink Copy Share Image
It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is good because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
