If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior… — David Elliott Copy Share Image
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“I could only liken it to the strength of a wheat stalk, which when struck by a storm, bends to the ground,… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
“Thievery is a time-honored profession, my girl. Not to be confused with these hooligans who mug people on the street, or bloodthirsty… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Whether it's a song that might deviate from an artists' usual sound or even if it's still very much in their world,… — Lewis Capaldi Copy Share Image
Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
“The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The only work for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate:… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here. — Paddy Mitchell Copy Share Image
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art. — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
