If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze."… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our job as artists, we believe, is not to make changes in society. We don't have the ability to do that. We… — John Kani Copy Share Image
I've never met an artist who was at a certain level of spirituality offstage and then lowered it onstage. — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me. — Shakira Copy Share Image
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
Mimicry artistes and comedians are supposed to incorporate incidents around him in his acts in a satirical way. For that, he should… — Salim Kumar Copy Share Image
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work… — VIRGIL PROFEANU Copy Share Image
“Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, language, everything that is distinctly of Man. The… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I developed 'Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied' while I was an Artist in Residence at Kalamazoo College. — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
As creators and as readers, we need to always be pushing it - by looking for the books, looking for the artists… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
“To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I would never want to write a character who was not thoroughly herself or himself. She's a very specific creature in my… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
