To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous. — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion. — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
Strum a few strings, Snap a few pictures, Write a few lines. Live for the arts ¥ — Kirsten Gilchrist Copy Share Image
We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past. — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
“tactics is the art of using troops in battle, but strategy is the art of using battles to win the war.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The 20-year-old version of me had all this energy, and wanted to be obnoxious with his art and wanted to communicate even… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
There'd be no merit to replicating something, to repeating something. As artists and as musicians, you wanna continue to go in different… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable… — William Butler Copy Share Image
When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“I do not say that artists cannot be seers, inspired: that the awen cannot come upon them, and the god speak through… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“You defined yourself by your enemy’s reaction. Conflict was the media bait—hence, now, the political chum. The new politics was not the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art. — George Sand Copy Share Image
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently. — Tania Bruguera Copy Share Image
Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
