In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. — Ruth Whitman Copy Share Image
All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them… — Nikky Finney Copy Share Image
If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse. — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams… — Karin Dreijer Andersson Copy Share Image
Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate:… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image
My overall approach toward art is to remain as open as possible in front of the world, to always be curious, not… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this? — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image