An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. — Ludwig Erhard Copy Share Image
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“It means, first, that everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody and has the widest possible publicity.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's.… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various… — Jia Zhangke Copy Share Image
I don't know if I actually respect other artists as people as much as I should. I look at their work as… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
“She needed to appreciate the art of violence, the beauty in fear, the fragility of her own life.” — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with. — Banksy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
For me, I like to be different. I didn't want to imitate another wrestler. I always try to find something from other… — Shinsuke Nakamura Copy Share Image
You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating… — Stanley Clarke Copy Share Image
