I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Martial arts is like dance. It's so beautiful and what I love about the martial arts mostly is that what it basically… — Rutger Hauer Copy Share Image
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Art is not some inessential frippery - it is the nation's means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies,… — Pauli Murray Copy Share Image
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I don't think ever before in the whole of human history has so much art been made, bought, and sold. It's a… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image