“Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“It’s a urinal! It’s not even the original. The art is in the idea, not the object.” — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow. — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
It is vital for artists to nurture and protect that which will make their vision unique. — Jane Fulton Alt Copy Share Image
We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs -… — Marion Raven Copy Share Image
I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
“Art is not an assembly of accidents. You have to master the rules before you break them.” — M. Pierce Copy Share Image
I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“The art, the art of living, involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts,… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Producers are the people behind the biggest artists in the game. We definitely deserve that title to be considered as an artist,… — Murda Beatz Copy Share Image
That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel… — Christopher Knight Copy Share Image
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Talking dirty to someone is an art but to be able to back it up is a gift. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I remember Art Blakey saying to me, "Just remember, we're blessed to do what we do." — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
“Artist or no-artist, I can't pass up a piece of fried chicken when I see one.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
