“No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his personality. He expresses his personality indirectly through concentrating upon a… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Art is subjective. Just because an executive, or even if five executives say that they don't like the idea and that they… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“French Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin would never have become Gauguin if he had not followed this principle. He was a bank employee… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
“The art critic and philosopher John Berger once said that we like to look at animals because it reminds us of the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I graduated from Wesleyan University with a b.a. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Until 'Lovecraft Country' feels like a show where people go, 'Is that how the world used to be?' we do need to… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
When it comes to best new artist or album or song of the year, yeah, it's very rare that you see someone… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside… — Zhuge Liang Copy Share Image
I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
I do think that as an artist, I crave privacy because that is when you get to really check in with yourself.… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages,… — Susanna Phillips Copy Share Image
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He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I am a terrible chef; I'm not a good cook. I don't have the talent, the patience, the desire even to cook… — Philip Rosenthal Copy Share Image
The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Being a full-time musician back before I had my son, it was sort of too much 'me' all the time. I felt… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They were there before… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We, this nation of ours, could be the richest nation in the world. We could be the freest nation in the world… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once… — Clara Shih Copy Share Image
I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
What I think is dreadful about art is the way it's related to the money afterward. Not when you do it... But… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
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