The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else.… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I was driving home the other night, listening to the radio, and the guy filling in for Art Bell on Coast to… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because… — David Foster Copy Share Image
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good,… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent. — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the… — Edward Elgar Copy Share Image
When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us. — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image