Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Doing Sherlock Holmes I really got into my development as a martial artist and now coming into Iron Man 2 I really… — Robert Downey Jr Copy Share Image
“A con artist, a total imposter, had played on my desires for the Cinderella dream and won a Monopoly trip to jail.… — Debra Moffitt Copy Share Image
I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts.… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth- That God is our friend! By that truth meaning is given To… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control,… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the… — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I believe there is a moment growing up when you build your own mood board. You do a collage - you collect… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in whichis our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipicethe… — Wyndham Lewis (1882â1957 Copy Share Image
“Cooking is like playing a violin. The bow is a tool used to play, as is the knives and other tools you… — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
“It showed a tiny baby girl floating in a clear glass vessel. The baby held a silver rose in one hand, a… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“If thou art called to pass through tribulation; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou art in perils among… — Joseph Smith Jr Copy Share Image
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director… — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
“The different arts reach our brains in different ways; they lodge there with differing ease, at different speeds, with different degrees of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made… — Gerard van der Leeuw Copy Share Image
We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“The Way of Bayes is also an imprecise art, at least the way I'm holding forth upon it. These blog posts are… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The whole point of an album is to understand the artist and enjoy the music - it's supposed to make you want… — Little Simz Copy Share Image
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I don't know if the art of stand-up will survive. Stand-up seems dated. Now you can do a mini-movie or a short… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
Despite their rising international acclaim, Sachal Studios remains virtually unknown in Pakistan. The ensemble is faced with a daunting task: to reclaim… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
My undergraduate degree was in art history! Raising money for Chipotle was really my MBA. The money for my first restaurant came… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like,… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
![“My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the point of collecting. It's certainly a [better] quality of life you have living with [these] works, but [I] also [value] the relationship we have with the artists.” quote by Patrick Seguin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92a/patrick-seguin-56024_art_my-business-is-retrospective-i-m-looking_247900.jpg)
