My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't. — Francois Pinault Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work.… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I learned more about who I am and how to be a great worker - and a great artistic worker - from… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control,… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image
For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of… — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
As an artiste, as a person who has a voice, I feel strongly about not creating anything empty. — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me. — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other. — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or… — Coco Martin Copy Share Image
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone. — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just… — Marta Kauffman Copy Share Image
Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
