People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message. — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare... — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing. — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Stand-up gets much harder as you become older You become more conscious of how great an art it is and more embarrassed… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on… — John Merrow Copy Share Image
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again. — Hermann Bahr Copy Share Image
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My tenth-ever gig was in an arena, which is mad... I remember being backstage with multiple artists there and someone had had… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
It just was really difficult for me to learn how to express myself on TikTok in a way that didn't feel like… — Chappell Roan Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
“Cash was running low, so I'd applied for a job as an administrative assistant for a nonprofit arts group. Without question, my… — Ryan Knighton Copy Share Image
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
“The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb' (Andre Breton qtd. p. 55)” — Christina Burrus Copy Share Image
“Writing is a place and getting there is the real art,” Otto Cristóbal Almeida.” — Samuel Zamarripa Copy Share Image
In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“We intuitively reject art when the cost to make it is less than the cost to buy it.” — Elizabeth Hyde Stevens Copy Share Image
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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