“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master;… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
“Frigideiro! " said Hermione again from the desk next to him. Her water was solid ice and there were white crystals forming on… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth. — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The time is a thing; you don't have so much time. A good trick is to try and think about a way… — Thomas McDonell Copy Share Image
The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have… — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I… — John Lennon 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 Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts.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
In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator. — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
When you have deaf experts within and on the stage, from the crew to makeup artists, it feels like that naturally leads… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up. — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. It's rough. Artwork is brutal for so many people. They let it happen… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be… — Banksy Copy Share Image
If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso. — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art gives us the opportunity to have clarity as well as hope that we might be able to survive a situation, or… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
