Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown… — Aleksa Palladino Copy Share Image
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good… — Hulk Hogan Copy Share Image
When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, 'You're signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!' — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make… — John Porcellino Copy Share Image
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“So many of those who take Christ into the world, whether it be it's missionaries or artists, are tied by those who… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many artists to pick as my obsessions? The four I listen to all the time are Phoebe Bridgers, A Tribe Called… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. The Art of Peace is a… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
“I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.” — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“for journalists words are simply tokens to be arranged and rearranged indifferently. But for an artist there can be only one ideal… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time… — Maxine Powell Copy Share Image
“Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
“He was defeated. Competitive him, who'd spent most of his life perfecting the art of winning. He'd been trounced by a woman.… — Becky Wade Copy Share Image
The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
“The world’s oldest ‘art’ (77,000 years old) comes from Blombos Cave on the southern coast of South Africa.” — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
In my opinion, my business runs better when my family is a part of it, and I get to see my wife… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate. — David Blaine Copy Share Image
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor. — Ed Parker Copy Share Image
Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I studied digital arts and graphic design, and then, at the same time I was studying, I was still doing auditions. — Nicole Maines Copy Share Image
I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
