Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. — Issey Miyake Copy Share Image
I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever… — George Brecht Copy Share Image
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an… — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience. I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the… — Richard Tuttle Copy Share Image
I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to… — Anonymous 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
Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary,… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy 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
