All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“You know that bad people can make great art, don’t you?’Said Annie. ‘Yes, of course. Some of the people whose art I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“The picture of change in human society that emerges from this recent research throws new light on that aspect of the Transition… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
I love fashion. My grandmother and great-grandmother were seamstresses, so I know fashion on an artistic level, not as labels, labels, labels.… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“believed the world was small and otptions were limited until i dreamed. I live in a world endless visions, the world where… — Molefi Nketekete Copy Share Image
I pretty much lived movie to movie in my younger years because I loved spending money, and I didn't really have a… — Stephen Dorff Copy Share Image
“Only art can make the future love you, and that is what art is about: attraction at a distance, seduction from the… — Supervert Copy Share Image
I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
For a bit I was going mad trying to do martial arts twice a week and go to the gym and do… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
“Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I think to varying degrees, every artist is using their partner as a sounding board. When your partner is the greatest songwriter… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
Too often, it is presumed that young people will only like art that they can immediately relate to. Working-class students may be… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that… — Philip Anschutz Copy Share Image
Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do no recognize, or will not concede,… — Waite Phillips Copy Share Image
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I paid attention to the music industry and watching a lot of stuff on TV, behind-the-scenes stuff on old DVDs, and paying… — Young M.A Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music.… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper,… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records, and they all felt different. It was a band that was… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
