It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind. — DJ Jazzy Jeff Copy Share Image
Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It's possible to have an awesome life, but it's up to ourselves to do it. — Lee Hammond Copy Share Image
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say “such a good… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“After reading this book, hopefully you will realize the challenges to be overcome in successfully marketing yourself and your artworks as a… — Peter K. Worsley Copy Share Image
As an artist, Priyanka Chopra is quite inspiring - she is unstoppable, fierce, and she does everything! — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of… — French Montana Copy Share Image