I think a lot of people see fashion as a feminine art form and use that as an excuse to dismiss it.… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
“You can’t apply academic rules to art of any kind. As soon as you begin to have rules, you begin to say,… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“On the Rules of Perspective A bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as great art or poor art. Art is subjective expression. As such, it can be judged only as… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Leonardo, with his profound knowledge of art, commenced various undertakings, many of which he never completed, because it appeared to him that… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial. — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu. — Abderrahmane Sissako Copy Share Image
The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
It's odd. Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. I'd been in… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
Making people dance has another function that has nothing to do with art, and I mean that in the most positive way… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I think we need great artists making great work - women, men, whoever. I think what's great about TV now is there… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I… — Dziga Vertov Copy Share Image
I find I am more interested in the villain-type roles because they can be so much more complex than just the villain.… — Shuler Hensley Copy Share Image
Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Repent,” Mindy jokes, “for thou art cursed with the younger sibling. And with great wailing and gnashing of teeth, the elder siblings… — Lauren Landish Copy Share Image
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
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