“How long does it take to see something, to know someone? If you put in years, you realize how little you grasped… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“If an artist of the caliber of Leonardo or Michelangelo was paid a hefty commission for a new private piece of art,… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
I would love for dancers to be treated better and for dancers to have support, for dancers to have managers, agents. This… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
“Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding… — Wu Han Copy Share Image
I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
“It has been said that because we have been given two ears and only one mouth, we should listen twice as much… — Michael Nir Copy Share Image
“The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times.… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
“Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Not only do they offend thee, O Lady, who outrage thee, but thou art also offended by those who neglect to ask… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I'm doing. And I want mainstream… — J Balvin Copy Share Image
I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
If you're an artist working in China, you become aware that there are things you have to give up in order to… — Jia Zhangke Copy Share Image
Within the next five years, I predict major changes in the art world and it will look nothing like it did ten… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's sweetly played… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“It's to hard to speak unfeigned to a world that bathes in the art of deception. It's hard to seek the truth… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The current climate doesn't represent a threat to the production of art but to the market. I think it's time for artists… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
We ultimately use good art as a tool for people to contextualize themselves, and the folks in all the places we play… — Liv Bruce Copy Share Image
Everyone seems so excited by the fact that music is more accessible, people can find new artists more easily and it's cheaper,… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
People usually forget that fashion designers are not artists, but there is an artistic side that is very strong in my point… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“Look here, Cranly, he said. You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It's frustrating always being compared to Britney because we are two very different artists... We both dance and sing but people have… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
If you feel your been loved then know that their is stupid have been betrayed, and if you feel that you have… — Junior Dè Rèál Testament Copy Share Image
