Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going. — Mark Mills Copy Share Image
As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Thought is more important than art…To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for… — Peter Stanyer Copy Share Image
Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He's so… — Shayna Baszler Copy Share Image
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced,… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
A person who is driven to spend their time and energy doing something must believe in it, whether they want recognition for… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility. — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that… — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe. — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists. — Kreesha Turner Copy Share Image
“Art You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time. — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer. — Leland Bell Copy Share Image
“Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh,… — Kate Taylor Copy Share Image
In my mornings I can do what I like - go to art galleries, museums and things, go to lunch with people. — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Every time I traveled out of the country or did different things or did a new record with an artist I loved,… — Trina Copy Share Image
I love writing books, but it's a solitary experience. When I'm on a film set, I'm with a bunch of other artists… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist. — Charles R. Jackson Copy Share Image
In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things. — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Forgiveness there are a Artwork. But I could not be accomplished to till today in the art. I do not successfully forgive… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. — Catie Curtis Copy Share Image
I'm just grateful that I have a chance to introduce traditional Indonesian martial arts to a worldwide audience. — Iko Uwais Copy Share Image
“I pointed at Wireman's forehead. "This is your brain," I said. Then I pointed at my easel. "This is your brain on… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Stealing Chanel' was very different for me as an artist. I had to embrace and expose my vulnerabilities, instead of manifesting a… — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
