“He couldn't imagine using the word 'rewarding' about a work of art - for instance that such and such a book has… — Dag Solstad Copy Share Image
Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We're living in a world where anything can be ART.(Looking out of my window I see a full moon so I took… — Sam Marcellin Copy Share Image
In the beginning, editorial always inspired my beauty looks, but we're living in a primarily digital age, and Instagram is a great… — Tommy Dorfman Copy Share Image
Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
“It becomes one who is called to be a soldier, and to go a warfare, to endeavor to excel in the art… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to… — John Fraser Copy Share Image
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labour and his leisure;… — L.P. Jacks Copy Share Image
What I mean by being real is just when you are doing dance celebrations, sports celebrations, like the cooking dance or anything… — Lil B Copy Share Image
Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music… — Ted Shawn Copy Share Image
Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've been getting really into mixing, and there's kinda like an art to it I think. I feel like I still have… — Chris Baio Copy Share Image
I think the idea that women have all this wonderful emotion is a myth, as well as the fact that men do… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
“Writing, as most art, is considered to be essentially superfluous. Who is an artist before a surgeon? Or a scientist? But the… — Rainer J. Hanshe Copy Share Image
I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
I think one of the things you have to have is a respect for the camera, a real respect, and a real… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Any time that we read a script and the 'Leverage' team has to infiltrate a place, assume identities, or become con artists… — Timothy Hutton Copy Share Image
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
“Trust me, I am not going to tame your wild. Your crazy is part of you; I wanna teach you how to… — Lisa Goldin Copy Share Image
Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of one’s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...There’ll be new fetishes… — Rick Castro Copy Share Image
Work-home-work-home, that's being an actor. Being a rock star? I get to travel the world, meet all the fans in person, party… — Mitchel Musso Copy Share Image
“There are many ways you can signify to yourself that you are doing your practice. For example, some people wear a white… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me.… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
“Quote of the day: Quote of the day: We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance,… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world.… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
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