When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“I congratulate you people on being in the raging mainstream of the arts. It is commercial artists like myself who operate in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helpeth our infirmity in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life ends… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I don't know what art is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you get paid to do. For myself this… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money… — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
“Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Acting is such a high art, and coming from theater, I know how hard it is and respect the craft. I want… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
“Art is pleasurable, and that adds value to life. It’s also inspirational and influential. It isn’t the same thing as being the… — Nicole Ciacchella Copy Share Image
Firstly, I am not a comedian. I have a sense of doing comedy but I am a character artist. If the character… — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist… — Brenda Lee Copy Share Image
“and over our heads will float the bluebird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the… — Ori Hofmekler Copy Share Image
You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
For me, 'The Raid' was survival horror. It had thriller elements, tension elements, gunfire, martial arts, and action - throw all of… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“... one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I started in the late 70s, beginning of the 80s, and I think I started to sing and make music as a… — Mari Boine Copy Share Image
I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
