Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Working a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves... Honor and love him...do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Mimicry artistes and comedians are supposed to incorporate incidents around him in his acts in a satirical way. For that, he should… — Salim Kumar Copy Share Image
“When you flood your mind with negativity, doubt, and inability, you interrupt, interfere, and block movement toward possibility. ” Excerpt From: Sarah… — Sarah Voldeng Copy Share Image
An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“It was the end for me. And yet not an end. In all the years which have since elapsed she remains the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
I don't spend a ton of time interacting, but I feel like I probably do more than most rappers/artists. I just find… — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful… — Saadat Hasan Manto Copy Share Image
Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
“The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers,… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
“The antidote, in so far as it is a matter of individual psychology, is to be found in history, biology, astronomy, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“Every time she meets him, she feels like he was a new paper ready to be drawn. And she could clearly remember… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself… — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
I was a high school student like Picasso. I was a little eccentric, but I had high ideals. I wanted to get… — Usamaru Furuya Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that the process of coming up with an idea for a column or a 'Candid Camera' sequence is… — Peter Funt Copy Share Image
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to… — Mencius Copy Share Image
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