A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos? — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty. — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my… — Elizabeth Siddal Copy Share Image
To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions. — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days. Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
When contemplating a shield that would protect America for incoming missiles, Democrats suddenly became hardheaded fiscal conservatives. For the first time in… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are so many amazing out, gay, black artists who are really great in their own fields, but they aren't necessarily trying… — MNEK Copy Share Image
I see a lot of people who have amazing stories but have been told that their work, their lives, and their stories… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
“I yet beseech your majesty,-- If for I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not; since what I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
“It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
Is there such a thing as black art? Or are there just artists who are black? — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom. — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
“Beneath the bleeding hands we feel / The sharp compassion of the healer’s art.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
I really believe that every character comes from the well of the artist. — Melora Hardin Copy Share Image
