Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation. — Gene Clark Copy Share Image
People will always need art and want fashion as a way of channeling their inner selves. — Cedella Marley Copy Share Image
All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
If you're an artist who's built on marketing and hype then most likely I won't listen to you. — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
“In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn’t have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation. I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“The art of provocation was unknown to me, and I would sit with his map upon my lap, the wind blowing my… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically. — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format. — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I did it all for me. Purely selfish. I worshiped the art and the act of death, over and over. It’s as… — Dennis Nilsen Copy Share Image
“Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Cizek came to Vienna [from Leitmeritz, a small town in Bohemia, then Austrian] when he was twenty [in 1885], and entered the… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
“Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process. — Mary Beth McKenzie Copy Share Image
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