Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
When people ask me now about why I make art, I think that's what I'm seeking - a moment of transcendence with… — Fernando Mastrangelo Copy Share Image
Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
Climate change is often the first thing I think about it in the morning, and the last thing I think about before… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for,… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
“God Is The Artist Of Your Landscape Will things always work out in the way you hope and want? Of course not!… — Cheryl Zelenka Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I wanted to open the dialogue about race in ballet and bring more people in. It's just beautiful to see the interest… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be called a fan, and that's no disrespect to any artist who calls them fans, but I never… — Mod Sun Copy Share Image
The difference with a major label and independent is mainly resources. That's the difference that I feel sometimes where I as an… — Goapele Copy Share Image
After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but… — Zoe Sugg Copy Share Image
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
I mean, the type of art that I enjoy is art that - I enjoy a very broad spectrum, but I especially… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
“In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“A beautiful rain is a treasure box. Inside this magical box there is an artistic umbrella, there is a pretty rainbow, there… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I perform in art time and in real time, and you can't tell the difference - no one knows how to separate… — Tehching Hsieh Copy Share Image
Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Schiaparelli was almost like a pop artist. Even the first sweater had a naive visual impact. You immediately get it, and you… — Marco Zanini Copy Share Image
Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of… — Paul Delvaux Copy Share Image
I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or… — David Small Copy Share Image
“A person’s work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
“The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image