Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Véra assumed her married name almost as a stage name; rarely has matrimony so much represented a profession. It was one of… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and… — Kenneth Goff Copy Share Image
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
“For some death is an art, for others it is merely an inevitability.” — Sadie S. Forsythe Copy Share Image
“That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We have to pay attention to one another, regardless of how someone may look or act, look again. Looking at people is… — Leah Chase Copy Share Image
As an artist, I write and I do what I know and what creatively comes out of me, and I think that… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts Make of so noble individual parts One fire of four inflaming eyes, and… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first… — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist. — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I feel like every artist has a place in their mind, this place where they exist artistically. And I just want to… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
“Aspiring authors, get this through your head. Cover art serves one purpose, and one purpose only, to get potential customers interested long… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
“We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
I think Jive was just a shady label that they didn't want artists in the same room like, 'Hey, what you making?'… — Too Short Copy Share Image
“Without a doubt, I must read, all the books I've read about. See the artworks hung on hooks, that I have only,… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
When I lived in New York, I was still ascribing to this idea of being a somewhat tortured artist. I thought that… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it… — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't be practical to have sections called "Dog Stories", "Horse Stories", "Mid-life Crisis and Adultery", "Writers and Artists Struggling to Discover… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an ancient art that rarely receives the respect it deserves. Is it even possible to find someone these days with… — Erika Eichenseer Copy Share Image