I was working in the gap where Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted communism and Warhol appropriated the protest image and named it… — Kelley Walker Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Sticks and stones are hard on bones, Aimed with angry art, Words can sting like anything But silence breaks the heart.’ Phyllis… — Lilliana Anderson Copy Share Image
You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“There are things We live among ‘and to see them Is to know ourselves’.” — George Oppen Copy Share Image
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The art of independence is not giving anyone the power to take anything away from you; whether it be materialistic or emotional! — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one? — Nelly Copy Share Image
A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My parents, who were split up, were so good at keeping my environment strong and keeping everything around me not focused on… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“From Portrait of a Landscape I think art only exists when it's being made. It's like a flower. Once picked, it starts… — Daniel D. Watkins Copy Share Image
“We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I'm here to be a martial artist and show people that I think there's a better way of life and a happier… — Jon Fitch Copy Share Image
Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
“Do not confuse kindness with weakness. Kindness is a dying art. It is the single most important quality in this world and… — James Rhodes Copy Share Image
“And she could clearly remember how the first time she met him, he was like a sketch paper filled with grey and… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
You can trade money for other good things and that's nice, but it's not the first thing that matters to me. I'm… — Demian Maia Copy Share Image
There are 100,000 artists on Pandora & 70% are indies; artists making $100K - $2 million. — Tim Westergren Copy Share Image
THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
