The Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the songs that really affected me were not from the artist catalogue of their music, like the song 'Thunder Road' by… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
What will always be possible is for someone to walk into a dark room and experience a film and connect to it.… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
“Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is… — Brad Dourif Copy Share Image
But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
“She sang, of course, "M'ama!" and not "he loves me," since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Some of our best writers are self taught. Screenwriting is a combo of craft and art. The craft part can be taught,… — Sriram Raghavan Copy Share Image
A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls. These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for… — Mick Dodson Copy Share Image
What populates a comic-book convention? Well there's actors, and there's dealers, and there's comic-book artists and writers, and there's cosplay people, toy… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I've been criticized by my generation, artists from the '70s - and there's nothing more tragic than artists from the '70s still… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
RIHANNA IS TODAY'S MOST FASCINATING PERFORMER, A MYSTERIOUS AMALGAM OF AMIABLE WARMTH AND GLITTERING CHARISMA. WITH HER KEEN CREATIVE EYE FOR LINE… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I consider myself an 'actorvist.' When I say that, what I mean is that I use my art to inform my activism… — Wilson Cruz Copy Share Image
I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking… — Max von Essen Copy Share Image
Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
