“In practicing the art of confusion, there is no better weapon than poetry.” — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour. — Jack White Copy Share Image
It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
“Last week during Life Drawing, Ms Franklin asked me if I'd ever considered majoring in art instead of biology. I asked her… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I want to become the greatest. Not merely in pro-wrestling, but in martial arts as a whole. — Antonio Inoki Copy Share Image
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
“Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art;… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
“MOMA's values were blown through the American education system, from high school upwards-and downwards, too, greatly raising the status of "creativity" and… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“But if America recalls for a moment what Europe has meant to her and still means to her, what Europe, the mother… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
