“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.” — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
“The art of exorcising machines has been lost for so long that we have not a single book of prayers and ceremonies… — Sean McMullen Copy Share Image
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing. — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning… — Plato Copy Share Image
In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending… — Adam Lambert Copy Share Image
The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art.… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in… — Choi Hong Hi Copy Share Image
I'm doing what I love to do. Martial arts is my everything. It's my life, my philosophy, how I think, who I… — Valentina Shevchenko Copy Share Image
I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war."… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up! — Max Liebermann Copy Share Image
The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to… — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the time, energy, creativity and effort each artist has brought to the project to further the mission of The… — Topaz Page-Green Copy Share Image
The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
“The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts. — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Art is definitely a passion of mine, but one that I couldn't afford to keep-up post-graduation, so I turned to DJing to… — Hannah Bronfman Copy Share Image
“I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer… — Mel Bochner Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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