The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen -… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
If we educate ourselves, then the desire and need to have art as a part of our lives will happen organically. I… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life. — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no… — David Shields Copy Share Image
asically, we got to know other and openly trade stories, and had some time to prep. As far as the 'going too… — Luke Kirby Copy Share Image
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings. — David Alfaro Siqueiros Copy Share Image
So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
