There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
“In regard to absurdism, Samuel Beckett is sometimes considered to be the epitome of the postmodern artist … In fact, he is… — William Desmond Copy Share Image
escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I… — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The sad thing is that somehow, it is a type of event that mirrors the artist. You take it into account, and… — Massimiliano Gioni Copy Share Image
I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
“The source of our art then is not in the achievements of other artists in other days and lands, although it has… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Well, I definitely have an artistic side to me as well. I write, I act, I draw. With that artistic mind I… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
If I go into a museum, it doesn't matter how often a work of art has been written about or thought about,… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of… — Geoff Rickly Copy Share Image
Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Rather like the precautionary clean underwear one is meant to wear in case one is run down by a bus, we had… — Suzanne Keene Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and… — Max Bill Copy Share Image
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you believe in Cinderella, and if you can suspend your disbelief at midnight, then you can believe in the interdisciplinary midnight,… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's… — Elizabeth Price Copy Share Image
What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do… — Rachael MacFarlane Copy Share Image
It's not that everything needs to have substance, but when nothing does then you know we're living in a bankrupt society, an… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
I felt saddened and confused to discover my favorite mural gone, but also hopeful that another one may be in the works.… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“This sucks. You didn’t have to take chemistry or government or anything. And that is so unfair that she’s letting you take… — Erin Lynn Copy Share Image
Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
“At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
I've collaborated with artists that truly run the gamut: from members of the Wu Tang Clan and Capone, to Moby, Lady Gaga,… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
It's keeping all those plates spinning, being open to do more art house independent films and then switching it up and doing… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“There was a time when I thought that film, unlike other art forms (being the most democratic of them all) had a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
![“One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I wanted to work with [Diego] Rivera, which I did, on a mural that he was painting at the time. But at some point I realized that I wasn't going to be a political artist, it just wasn't in my…” quote by Michelle Stuart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/029/michelle-stuart-27692_art_one-of-the-reasons-that-i-went-to-mexico_2791884.jpg)
![“We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the…” quote by Rachael MacFarlane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f77/rachael-macfarlane-40743_art_we-me-and-my-husband-both-had-our-things_2587513.jpg)
