“Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
Museums are important. Design and art schools are important because they show how it should be done at the highest level of… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter.… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste,… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The French, whose fascination with 19th-century Japanese painting and decorative art led them to coin the term 'Japonisme,' have reciprocated the interest,… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
I thank God that you know the art of tearing yourself apart - I mean the way to humble yourself truly by… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I don't think ever before in the whole of human history has so much art been made, bought, and sold. It's a… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I thought for a long time that within art, that you would come up with an idea, you would labor over it… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
“The choice is yours.Either way, I will be faultless. So ask yourself, would you rather take credit for an eyesore or for… — Cayla Kluver Copy Share Image
If an artist has the possibility to contact an infinitely larger public through the pages of a publication, he should try to… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“We are not defined by our things. Its not our clothes we wear or the cars we own or the art we… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
If we see someone, an artist who just does magnificent art, and especially if they're already doing Ghost-related art, we just reach… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
I'm in the art world so I use the art world a lot - or art world people as actors. I've also… — Michel Auder Copy Share Image
It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I've had several moments in my career where it seemed like I might not age out of the bracket the world wants… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own… — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
“Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
What I am most proud of with the book On to the Next Dream is how I turned an intensely emotional experience… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
There is a Nina Simone quote, 'It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.' This quote is everything to me and… — Raye Copy Share Image
The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
“This is not a con game in the criminal sense, in which con artists deliberately dupe the suckers. Instead it's a form… — David F. Labaree Copy Share Image
“HOWEVER skilled and strong art thou, my foe, However fierce is thy relentless hate Though firm thy hand, and strong thy aim… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
