If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries. — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
“If an artist of the caliber of Leonardo or Michelangelo was paid a hefty commission for a new private piece of art,… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
“The less evidence of extrinsic motivation during art school, the more success in professional art both several years after graduation and nearly… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Schiaparelli was almost like a pop artist. Even the first sweater had a naive visual impact. You immediately get it, and you… — Marco Zanini Copy Share Image
I want to take this art form to a whole new level in India so that kids say that they want to… — Shakti Mohan Copy Share Image
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired. — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
