One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a… — Takenaka Shigekata Copy Share Image
“Those seeking political and economic change should consider embracing art. Part of our role as citizens is to look more closely at… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
I picked up some wonderful things just listening to other pianists that I appreciate, and that would be Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson,… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment… — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule:… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art.… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“And something else, of course; there’s always more, deep in art’s pockets, far down in the chiaroscuro on which these foodstuffs rest:… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting… — Niklas Luhmann Copy Share Image
“There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
“Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I… — Matt Schulze Copy Share Image
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Everybody has problems. Just because you're an artist or an entertainer, it doesn't mean you don't live a regular lifestyle. You still… — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey,… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
“By "Suprematism" I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world… — Kasimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Instruments are expensive, aren't they? But it's your art though. It's a lot of money but it's your instrument - imagine buying… — NAO Copy Share Image
“I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that art has often judged the judges,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but… — Theodore Roszak Copy Share Image
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Technology is going to play a huge part in tomorrow's music business. And the companies that will win are going to be… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
Maybe nothing is art”, maybe everything is or could be art. To that, no doubt she would have responded like she did… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Honestly, without art and dance, I think I would be a very safe, black-and-white thinker. I wouldn't dare to take any risks… — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
“On the great canvas of time We all create our own masterpiece. Choreographing our steps across minutes and hours Dancing over the… — Michele Jennae Copy Share Image
Artists talk about art in sort of straightforward terms, more like the way you talk about plumbing fixtures. Does it function well?… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image