No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things.… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I think artists sometimes go back to something when we never should, for many different reasons. You hear a lot of stories… — Gza Copy Share Image
All my favorite artists were pretty serious in the sense that their music was something I could sink my teeth into, from… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and… — Teresita Fernandez Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Typically, in France, someone in my position should keep their mouth shut. I'm an entertainer, operating in the realm of pop, and… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
I love poetry. It's at the heart of everything I do. Poetry transforms what we call language, and uses language as the… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Passion," the artist implied, would have been the dominant note of his life, had it not been held in check by a… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I've always performed. From the time that I was little, I was pretty precocious and always gravitated toward performing arts. But I… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
I have always been aware of different movements and directions in art. But, in general, I'm always bored by any kind of… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brahmacharya is not against sex. If it is against sex then sex can never disappear. Brahmacharya is a transmutation of the energy:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The point is not to resist painful experiences or grasp at pleasant ones: that's a kind of craving - and craving leads… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
“Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist… — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is… — Plato Copy Share Image
“When he craved contact, he stopped in to visit the Cézannes and Monets at the Musée du Luxembourg, believing they had already… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Every day I'm getting shaped and molded. Keepin' on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more… — Lil Baby Copy Share Image
I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection,… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
There's a phrase that art is something created by the few and admired by the many. Now it's not created by the… — Eddie Rabbitt Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
I often wonder why we don't have an English word for 'genre.' People on arts programmes always have to use the word… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
