I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When you make or study art, you are not exploring some kind of candy on the surface of a machine. You are… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our… — Valerie Miner Copy Share Image
My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
“I have always wanted my art to service my people… We have to create an art for liberation and for life” — Elizabeth Catlett Copy Share Image
When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
“Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
It's kind of strange to be a free soloist when you know so much about flying, because I'm playing two opposite games,… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't… — Till Lindemann Copy Share Image
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that's church, Allah, or any sort of higher… — BJ the Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
“Art is all the implicit knowledge, mechanisms and processes that are not yet fit with the method and consensus of science.” — Nader Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“The creation of one's own religion – the art of crafting one's own form of heroism – is among the highest of… — VD Copy Share Image
The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home. — Anthony Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Creation is like anything else good: You have to wait on it; ambition has killed more Artists than indolence.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“To pick you up, Frank, I'm going to have to put both my hands on you", I said. "That will be alright",… — Julia Claiborne Johnson Copy Share Image
I am tired of seeing girls with broken hearts, I'm sorry someone tore it apart, now your heart is a piece of… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with… — Jeremy Begbie Copy Share Image
Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've always loved basketball; my father was a girl's coach when I was born. So I've always appreciated the sport and the… — Tyrese Haliburton Copy Share Image
Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I moved to L.A. straight out of graduating my arts high school and worked three jobs to afford living while taking acting… — Madelaine Petsch Copy Share Image