The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.” — Bob Goddard Copy Share Image
From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
As an artist, I recognise how powerful and influential music can be, so I think to put positivity out there is important… — Koffee Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one. — Hedda Sterne Copy Share Image
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
An artist is someone who paints and is creative, but they are not necessarily using their brains too much. And it's the… — Keeley Hazell Copy Share Image
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film… — Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Copy Share Image
The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As an artist, one always seeks the acceptance and adoration of the audience, and therefore I was afraid this could affect my… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
