Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes — Alexej von Jawlensky Copy Share Image
“Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.” — Clive James Copy Share Image
“How is it a vegan won't visit the zoo or rodeo, but you'll level a man with martial arts?” — DiAnn Mills Copy Share Image
The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the… — Stjepan Hauser Copy Share Image
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play. — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I think I am the type of artist that, time and time again, either people love or don't know about. — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Yes,’ he cried, ‘you have killed my love! You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. You… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It's unfortunate that we don't have a mentor system anymore. In the Renaissance, artists were apprentices to masters. You learn to do… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations -… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
