The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole… — Alex North Copy Share Image
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
The whole idea is preserving the music and the art and not having us and our faces and our individual characters distract… — Justin Chancellor Copy Share Image
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it the Reproduction of what the senses perceive… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The art of Gracie jiu-jitsu is to learn how to defend yourself in any situation, not to score points, not for tournament… — Royce Gracie Copy Share Image
Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning — Charles Rennie Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.” — Misha Glouberman Copy Share Image
It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object.… — Christine Leunens Copy Share Image
After marriage, I will have two sets of parents who are proud of me. And I also know that I won't do… — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
“Mastering the art of selling involves mastering the craft of providing your clients the education, products, services, and personal contact before, during… — Tom Hopkins Copy Share Image
People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot… — Kristoffer Rygg Copy Share Image
An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Part of the problem [with Picasso's fame] lies with the artist himself - at that point when Picasso stopped making art and… — Art in America; Picasso: A Symposium John Jacobus Copy Share Image
When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
“I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've had several moments in my career where it seemed like I might not age out of the bracket the world wants… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you are a real artist, you give your whole being to your art. Anything short of that, then you are not… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and… — John Russell Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
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