Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. — Frank Wedekind Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Constant contact is what people require these days. Its tough on artists. — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country… — Hetti Perkins Copy Share Image
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting,… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“IT'S NOT THE HONEY WHISKEY IN A FRIDAY NIGHT - IT'S THE MANIC SHOW OF POETRY TWEETS THAT TURNS ME ON.” — Amy King Copy Share Image
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The very idea of Palaeolithic art was deeply disturbing. Was not art one of the great achievements of high civilizations?” — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One thing that I am becoming to learn is that you've got to have patience and wait your turn in this game.… — Omarion Copy Share Image
I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“mother's love of books and spent a great deal of time outdoors, where she grew up independent and free spirited. Nature became… — Sandra McLeod Humphrey Copy Share Image
Mixed martial arts - there's just been a lot of trash talking and things like that. People, I feel like, aren't really… — Rose Namajunas Copy Share Image
The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way. — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects. — Epictetus Copy Share Image