Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates… — David Walker Copy Share Image
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it… — Norman Lindsay Copy Share Image
In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified… — Maurice Ravel 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
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
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question. — Robert Engman Copy Share Image
I don't like getting hit for one, although you know I did take Aikido for many years, but Aikido is a different… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him -… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him! — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill,… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie.… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
