The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.” — Peter Adolphsen Copy Share Image
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film. — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed… — Rain Copy Share Image
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage. — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art. — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In the purer ages of the commonwealth, the use of arms was reserved for those ranks of citizens who had a country… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial… — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
“I love you and always have. The great heavens and the ultimatum of the universe have driven me straight to you…. And… — Nick Oliveri Copy Share Image
When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just… — Galarrwuy Yunupingu Copy Share Image
“But the operation of writing implies that of reading as its dialectical correlative and these two connected acts necessitate two distinct agents.… — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Creativity is the art of being yourself through all the possible means and ways.” — Yasser Kashef Copy Share Image
Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“He was a drool-worthy, panty-drenching, yummy work of masculine art.” — Kelly Moran Copy Share Image
The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person. — Ann Mortifee Copy Share Image
Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
