All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive,… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
“Trust me, I am not going to tame your wild. Your crazy is part of you; I wanna teach you how to… — Lisa Goldin Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a Die, with such determined force and direction which makes it fall on such a determined side, only… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service. They are the teachers whose names will… — Mel Lawrenz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the answers you need to hear aren't the answers you want to hear.” — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd… — John Prine Copy Share Image
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art. — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
Beauty and Art of Life is hidden in sharing the Love and happiness without expecting anything in return. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“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