The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools. — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
On stage, it's like an argument going on between four people. The argument is the art. — John Waite Copy Share Image
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“Murder = Art ... Everyone is artist... we all understand different the word "Artist” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to… — Edward Hicks Copy Share Image
I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; So vast is… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad.… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
“Marlins Park was a creature all its own, the brainchild of either a surrealist artist or a 15-year-old kid who set out… — Ben Blatt and Eric Brewster Copy Share Image
In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages.… — Adele Exarchopoulos Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words… Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
When someone tries to take over a country or a culture, they destroy the art. — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
“She was also unaware that the ego of the artiste is extremely fragile.” — Paul Shaffer Copy Share Image
I enjoy reading and thinking, and it's hard to make that space as an artist. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it. — Dong Kingman Copy Share Image
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The true art of living consists in converting stopping-stones into stepping-stones! — Dada JP Vaswani Copy Share Image
Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists. — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it. — Jaune Quick–to–See Smith Copy Share Image
It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. — George Santayana Copy Share Image