In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You never, ever leave art school. It's important to keep finding inspiration. I look at YouTube videos and think, 'How would I… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the… — Plato Copy Share Image
perhaps there is something more than courtesy behind the dissembling reticence of childhood. ... Most artists dislike having their incomplete work considered… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
We get better product when the focus is on the fans and the artists - all artists; musical artists; singers, the graphic… — David Banner Copy Share Image
The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“The central concern of Egyptian art, literature, and architecture was the divine world order -- the pharaoh and the gods, who were… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
Neither of my parents are involved in theater or acting, but they are very artistic. My mom is a painter; she's an… — Elena Kampouris Copy Share Image
I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
“Every thought we think is like a brush stroke on the canvas of our lives. Let’s choose our thoughts, then, as a… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
There are a million brands of micellar water, but the Bioderma was recommended to me by a makeup artist, and it really… — Logan Browning Copy Share Image
Made in Catteland is a project that aims to overcome the boundaries of the work of art as we're used to thinking… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
“A woman’s body was a work of art. One to be explored and appreciated. Every curve, every valley, every freckle a treasure… — Olivia Cunning Copy Share Image
“CONCERTS IN TOWN “Summergarden: New Music for New York” The Museum of Modern Art turns to music every summer, hosting a variety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China,… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen… — Vincent Kartheiser Copy Share Image
It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
“while the examples of their art and the representations of their form and features, which were also afforded by the diggings at… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
My personal philosophy is, talk about whatever you want on a show, but it better be good. And especially if it's something… — Cameron Esposito Copy Share Image
We were in production on a movie called All the Real Girls, which filmed in the Fall of 2001, and we really… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists,… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really… — Selah Louise Marley Copy Share Image
“Darwin concluded that language ability is “an instinctive tendency to acquire an art,” a design that is not peculiar to humans but… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The definition of Christian art is to be found in its subject and its spirit. Everything, sacred and profane, belongs to it.… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market… — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Could we see things always as we have sometimes seen them—and as one day we must always see them, only far better—should… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring 'Huckleberry Finn.' Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
