I went to UCLA and studied studio art. I thought I was going to be a gallery painter, photographer, or ceramicist. Then,… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“According to this view, all that matters to art appreciation is beauty of form. The logical extreme of aestheticism turns out to… — John McAteer Copy Share Image
Lots of things motivate me: my coworkers motivate me to work harder and always strive to be a better artist. My dad… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and… — Richard Hovey Copy Share Image
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't… — Rico Love Copy Share Image
“A Lake Charles-based artist, Sally was a progressive Democrat who in 2016 primary favored Bernie Sanders. Sally's very dear friend and worl-traveling… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas.… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
“Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
“A master piece with a use of fullness !!! Artist & writer / designer .Best Selling rated book selected at worldwide publisher.inc… — Andre Pace Copy Share Image
What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Sometimes The Path You Choose, Isn't The Path That GOD Has Intended For You, You Might Just Have To Take A Step… — Tyree Butler Copy Share Image
I'm cool with doing shows with 2,000 people. I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the work of younger artists, and it's affordable compared to mature art, so you can take a chance much… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Toda a arte é agressiva, Isabella. E toda a vida de artista é uma pequena ou uma grande guerra, a começar pelo… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization,… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
“Holy shit.” This is the kind of sunset you hardly see any more, a 19th-century wilderness sunset, a few of which got… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live,… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“People want to explore, we want to press our capacities to their limits, we want to appreciate what we can. But the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
“I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I don't believe art is meant to be economical. Art is adventurous, sloppy and hugely imaginative. What I look at is hitting… — Kevin Max Copy Share Image
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
“The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
