The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself. — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to… — Beth Gibbons Copy Share Image
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas. — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions. — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm purposeless. I'm making art because I want you to look at that painting and I want it to affect you in… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than… — Brassai Copy Share Image
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
I love voice over work. To me, voice over and animation is such an art, because you focus solely on your voice.… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This… — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I felt saddened and confused to discover my favorite mural gone, but also hopeful that another one may be in the works.… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. — Carl Andre 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
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer. — Paula Vogel Copy Share Image