To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is. — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
People make films for different reasons. For money. Or, they make them because something in them demands artistic expression. I do it… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, "once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art.” — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
Collaborating with other artists is an emotional thing. Obviously, you don't do it unless this person inspires you. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality,… — Afeni Shakur Copy Share Image
As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“I have written this because it may have escaped the notice of many who have admired her [Marie Tempest] brilliant performances that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.” — Bob Goddard Copy Share Image
“the art of writing changeable code requires the ability to write high-value tests.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Yes, I know, I’m only an artist. What would I know about the dark side of Baghdad?” — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist. — Clarice Cliff Copy Share Image
I think when you come from a house full of artists, everyone's got their niche. — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
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