“Art affirms all that is best in man—hope, faith, love, beauty, prayer…What he dreams of and what he hopes for…What is art?…Like… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us? — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up,… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
One of the best things Henry Miller ever said was that art goes all out. It's all out. It goes full length.… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Art is about the context in which it is made as much as the object itself; objects take on different meanings in… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an… — Charles-Edward A. Winslow Copy Share Image
By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Why are other people profiting off that? I can see that if I have the page and sold it for $50 and… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“In times when evil comes because men misunderstand and hate one another, it is the mission of the artist to praise sweetness,… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“In the 20th century after WWII, Ralph Burke Tyree led the transformation and appreciation of the South Pacific’s serene beauty with his… — C.J. Cook Copy Share Image
The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
One of my favorite hip-hop artists is Makonnen. One of my favorite bands is Fall Out Boy. You put those two together,… — Lil Peep Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue… — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is… — Ursus Wehrli Copy Share Image
One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“You can 3d print furniture, but you cannot 3d print art - and alas, only a true artist can know what this… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
“You'd die of shame at the thought of showing anyone what you'd written. Somebody somewhere says that 'the urge to preserve is… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image