The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Remember from this very moment: always choose that which is good for you and good for others. Choose creativity. Become a blessing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob &… — William Blake Copy Share Image
As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“His knowledge was not far behind The knight's, but of another kind, And he another way came by't ; Some call it… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds… — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
Fight choreography has far more in common with dance choreography than it does with actual martial arts. You learn martial arts techniques,… — David Leitch Copy Share Image
No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
I've been told throughout my career that I have good instincts, and the idea of discovery and development in terms of a… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
“Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Like James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Woolf ’s first novel is a self-conscious meditation on… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If I were not a black artist but I was still singing, playing guitar, and singing ballads that are spiritual and cerebral,… — India Arie Copy Share Image
The Voice of Heaven is a still small voice. The voice of peace in the home is a quiet voice. There is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art.… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products.… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
There's this food that's evolved over thousands of years and people have made their own kind of thing, but it's not art-food,… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing… — Daya Copy Share Image
I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not… — Walter Guido Vincenti Copy Share Image
“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
