The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a… — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
Not only do they offend thee, O Lady, who outrage thee, but thou art also offended by those who neglect to ask… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects. — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
“Commonalities, which need to be celebrated, exist among creative people – as they do in the sciences, the sports or in many… — Ellen Palestrant Copy Share Image
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
In musical theatre you're also supposed to be able to dance and everything, so I've always tried to take dance lessons, but… — Isa Briones Copy Share Image
I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing… — Nick Heyward Copy Share Image
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet. — Young-Ha Kim Copy Share Image
Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a… — Berenice Bejo Copy Share Image
“I'd attended a selective liberal arts college, trained at respectable research institutions, and even completed a dissertation for a doctoral degree. In… — Alex Kudera Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision. — Laurence Gartel Copy Share Image
Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It makes me really proud to be able to use my art to spread positive messages around the world. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In my mind jealousy would come with seeing people do something that makes it all look extremely easy when it's not, like… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation. — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Comedy is more an art of body language and gestures - it is more a performance of an artist than the lines… — Johnny Lever Copy Share Image
Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature.… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
“If ever in pain, I think the best thing we can do is to create something.” — Kamal Ravikant Copy Share Image
A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion. — Richard B. Garnett Copy Share Image
“I think he just changed the spelling, Robert. Like for artistic reasons.” He wrinkled his nose up and thought about it, squeezing… — L.T. Vargus Copy Share Image