In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young,… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“I have a hard time picturing anyone wanting to let you go, even though you have being grumpy down to an art… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing. — Andrej Pejic Copy Share Image
It's a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist. — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave, La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star! To thee I say that if… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I feel that homophobia runs rampant in the music industry, and that artists are allowed to speak openly in a hateful way,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is… — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
