A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Pretty much any artist that I know of that has found that mentor status, if they're generous and okay to bestow a… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“Mori made an unwilling sound. 'I don't like Western art.' 'No look at this.' He lifted it from its package. It wasn't… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
How do you get into magazines? How can you get on TV or in your local newspaper? What can you do so… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous,… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
“The painting was food. He wanted to caress it, hold it in his hands, lick its glazed surface, plunge into it, dive… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
I'm keeping everything on a human level, but essentially everything in our lives has to be on a human level. Any specification… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I really wanted to take the viewer to the 'here and now' regarding the exterminations, and communicate directly in a visceral way.… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I'd done performance art sporadically from about 1976 - very personal street things on my own. Acting seemed like a natural step… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
“The food I eat in my imagination is more powerful and particular than what I consume in reality, just as a dream… — Kyung Ran Jo Copy Share Image
“Now in his nineties, Spock is writing a book on spirituality. But his understanding of spirituality is a far cry from that… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
My grandma, Edith, was one of the greatest inspirations in my life, both personally and professionally. She was an incredibly talented artist… — Jennifer Meyer Copy Share Image
There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“It's been said that the role of the artist is to teach us to see and that's true. However, the role of… — Brooks Jensen Copy Share Image
The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
I believe the beauty of everyday lies in our hands. We are all artists, given different colours to paint the day bright… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama's 'Hope' poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It's pretty serious. Detroit… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I've become really aware of all the subtle things you can communicate through the art and how you're presenting a character, particularly… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act, and merely survives. There is… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist,… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Comparing Oceanic art generally with Negro art, it has a livelier, thin flicker, but much of it is more two-dimensional and concerned… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Stick to God! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else! Through the terrors of evil, say-my God, my… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old.… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
I hit the road with a bunch of drag queens every year, sometimes two times a year. Again, as such a fan… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it… — Michelle Grabner Copy Share Image
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The timing of comedy is so difficult. You've got to leave room for a laugh, you don't want to kill the laugh,… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
