The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial… — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think ultimately, people are selfish in that department [blues], in a good way - the reason we're attracted to art is… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects. — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle… — Eric Gibbons Copy Share Image
The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image