art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself. — Ross Bleckner Copy Share Image
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen. — El Greco Copy Share Image
The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other… — Isaiah Mustafa Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our… — Valerie Miner Copy Share Image
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the… — Criss Angel 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 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
I think art is beautiful. It's decoration and adornment. But art is also a really important vessel for social change, and social… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the… — Reeve Carney Copy Share Image
Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
