The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination." Metaphors. This was the cost of making… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will… — Doris McCarthy Copy Share Image
Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by — Blaine Hogan Copy Share Image
It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever… — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
Stand-up is one of the art forms where you don't have to look nice, and I hope it stays that way. — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
“Never withhold your art from the world. It may hold the power to heal a heart or be the gift someone has… — Joy E. DeKok Copy Share Image
Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
A hush of expectancy descended in the chamber as all waited to hear the request. What treasure could he want? Laren inventoried… — Kristen Britain Copy Share Image
The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
My favorite artists are able to take things to the edge or just over the edge. Miles Davis and Duane Allman, for… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As an artist, it's incredible to see folks see you and then be able to give that back and to be able… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
Everything that I did to win a gold medal, I'm practically transferring it over to mixed martial arts. — Henry Cejudo Copy Share Image
Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think the music I listen to is always therapeutic. It allows me to get my mind to another place and just… — Jalen Hurts Copy Share Image
Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because it's scary. — Tyler Farr Copy Share Image
Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“When a person encounters his own statue and takes a hammer to it, performance art adds depth to greatness.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible! — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of… — Miguel de Molinos Copy Share Image
When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages.… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a… — Ana Tzarev Copy Share Image
“The most distinctive quality of artmaking is the investment of the artist’s own humanity in the finished piece.” — Ted Orland Copy Share Image
Ive always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.… — Daniela Bobadilla Copy Share Image
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression. — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
