“Once she’d thought him the most handsome man in the world, and the knowledge that most women wouldn’t look at him twice… — Tammy Cohen Copy Share Image
The reason why I'm popular as an artist in this country is because it suits the psyche of the nation at this… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“And to celebrate I will create a series of masterpieces showing how wrong-headed and primitive you and your ideologies are, and it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Zar mi Friedrich ne može reći jesu li moje fotografije umjetnost? Što je uopće umjetnost? Ostarjela sam, a da me nisu uputili… — Jasna Horvat Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic ideals emerging from Zen art focus heavily on naturalness, on the emphasis of man's relation to nature. The Zen artists, as… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I bought two sculptures of two baboons called Lord and Lady Muck on an antique piece of furniture from an art exhibition,… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
I would let my fans and people looking from the outside looking in dictate that. But, in my mind I gotta treat… — Lil Herb Copy Share Image
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
“It is sad, is it not, that no one today displays an interest in the art of shrunken heads. Men, women, and… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're continually riding the waves of whether you're in or out, getting work or not getting work, and Kazan… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
“NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. Its a gift to… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I do this sort of thing where, even for my own shows, I like to supply my own fingerprint of creativity. Not… — Deadmau5 Copy Share Image
“If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgement about it.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I've always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly I think of myself of… — Adam Shankman Copy Share Image
“Men have unlearned the ability to recognize the godly in themselves and in things: nature and art, family and state have only… — Hans Cornelius Copy Share Image
A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance… By the elimination of… — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I think you have to learn to have a thick skin. I think it comes with being in a girl band and… — Perrie Edwards Copy Share Image
Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Embi: And you're supposed to be so good at mending primuses, pastor Jón! Pastor Jón: And correspondingly bad at Baroque art. Embi:… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
A unitary urbanism — the synthesis of art and technology that we call for — must be constructed according to certain new… — Gil J Wolman Copy Share Image
“This combination of parody and seriousness reflects the contradictions of an era in which we find ourselves confronted with both the urgent… — Situationist International (English Section Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and I would hear an artist talk about their depression, it would change my whole life and… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image