A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Just as no significant work of art can be created without the element of irrationality that is in fact the artist's talent."… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“The best moments of life are those when we contemplate beauty in the purely artistic spirit — objectively.” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be… — William Morris Copy Share Image
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is… — Plato Copy Share Image
The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff.… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example. — Duane Ludwig Copy Share Image
If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
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