The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Yes, I know, I’m only an artist. What would I know about the dark side of Baghdad?” — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions. — Rachel Roy Copy Share Image
I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation… — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“It is easy to love a woman, it is in nature, but art to love a man, and a profound art to… — David Gilbert Copy Share Image
We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter,… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
“I'm going out on a limb here and say that I believe my morality should have no bearing on the discussion of… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine… — Sean Mackin Copy Share Image
Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
“Science seeks to understand complex processes by reducing them to their essential actions and studying the interplay of those actions--and this reductionist… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love. — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever. — Carson Ellis Copy Share Image
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
