Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
I'm so interested in the feminism of women in American music. These ladies, going out on the road, way before the opportunities… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It's not that I can't find art beautiful. I just don't know what to do, standing there in the gallery. I don't… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I didn't go to high school, I didn't go to college, I didn't have women's studies. All of my feminist ideals and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my vast language?” “Yea,… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention;… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
“The critic said that once a year he read Kim; and he read Kim, it was plain, at whim: not to teach,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent -… — Moby Copy Share Image
Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something… — Paul Thek Copy Share Image
Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children's art or children's… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I like my social media space to be somewhere very positive... I like to just be able to just share any images… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
I knew a gentleman that I had worked with over the years, who is no longer with us, and was a great… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“We might say that both the artist and the neurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The brain has an attentional mode called the "mind wandering mode" that was only recently identified. This is when thoughts move seamlessly… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
“I wanted to buy it because I was really into computer graphics,” Jobs recalled. “I realized they were way ahead of others… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
There's a market for art, and things are indeed going swimmingly, especially for German artists. But everything takes place in America and… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
I don't need a Hollywood girl. They're crazy. If you're with an actress, you don't know who you're going to come home… — JC Chasez Copy Share Image
The best way to become more creative is to create nothing. By this, I mean that you should return to zero point.… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very small town, on a farm. There was not even a TV in my house at that… — Glover Teixeira Copy Share Image
