“I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we’re in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I get to the drawing, I really enjoy taking a big chunk of time and working on the drawing and nothing… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer and a… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
“...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
There's a very fine line between martial arts and dance. Kicking with your foot stretched out, or kicking with your foot flat… — Daniela Ruah Copy Share Image
The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in… — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not… — Rembrandt Peale Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I think that to be a good artist, you have to have ideas as well as manual skills. It's a blend of… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I'm a touring artist - I love going out and playing live, and I was sick of making records didn't translate well… — Todd Carey Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I love using LEGO bricks is because it makes the art very relatable and accessible; folks can connect… — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
I went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
I personally think there's going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than there were for programming… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
“I presume this is part of your erotic art collection?" she mused out loud. "It is most beautifully done; only look at… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Each film has its processes. It doesn't mean that all animated films have to be like "Boy and the World," but creators… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
I learned from books that I picked up. That was something that just came out of nowhere but continued to be an… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I don’t know anything about art so I can’t tell you that it’s watercolor or acrylic or that it’s on canvas or… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don’t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
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![“You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71d/anonymous-1_art_you-see-for-me-art-s-not-one-of-life-s-o_1831099.jpg)
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