“As, in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Anyway, that's all art school is. A big clusterfuck for rich poseurs. Who the fuck needs it? But it's a system, right?… — David Gordon Copy Share Image
In the record business, if you sign an artist that don't really know too much about the business, you can really get… — YG Copy Share Image
“When he was little, she'd stay late in his room, drawing pictures of him as he slept. She had fat pads filled… — Dana Adam Shapiro Copy Share Image
Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the… — Joseph Black Copy Share Image
What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
What then is to be the lot of Rossetti's fame and influence? 'An amateur who failed in two arts', it is true;… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one… — John Banville Copy Share Image
While in college, we used to go for art exhibitions, theatre shows and music concerts. I have spent a lot of time… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
“Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Emerald green eyes studied us from a face that could have been sculpted by one of the classical artists I so admired.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I am from Lebanon, from Beirut and Saida I am from the ground underneath my home I am from the trees, the… — Talal Kassem Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I don't mean to give performance art a bad name or anything; I think there are people that are legit. I think… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
“The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky that I'm not a photographer for hire - people hire me for me. I go into every commercial work… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Machiavelli’s descriptions of the strategic and tactical rules of this world are valuable despite an element of caricature: A Prince, therefore, should… — David Christian Copy Share Image
I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we… — Common Copy Share Image
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow, Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea, What matters beating wind… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
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