Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind… — Lacey Schwimmer Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I think people in the gay and straight worlds can get a sense of what it means to be an artist. — Jill Eikenberry Copy Share Image
“Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you're dealing with writers and artists” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I love Narcy, he's such a good artist. I know him personally, he's a friend. He's of my generation - he puts… — Ramy Youssef Copy Share Image
'No words - action' was the lesson my mother taught me: as artists, we have the privilege of holding a mirror to… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
“For some young artists, it can take a bit of time to discover which tools (which medium, or genre, or career pathway)… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don't know what I thought art was like. But I learned… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
When I was injured after 'Kill Bill' I had a year where I not just couldn't make any money but I couldn't… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world. — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
“and most modern and all surrealist art is nothing but attempted witchcraft, borrowing its forms from the primitive witchdoctor and its ideas… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Half your battle is won when the writing is good, and then you as an artist bring your personality into it. — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
“A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
The reason why I play around with the word legend is because this is my 7th CD and a lot of artists… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds. — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Art is like fruit, and every tree is known by its fruit. Fruit reveals a lot about the tree from which it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A human who learns, and practices the art of love as does divinity, is no longer human.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art. — David Furnish Copy Share Image
Acknowledgement and recognition from authoritative quarters are important to every artiste. — Sridevi Copy Share Image
I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective. — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
A lot of wrestlers get guys to the ground in a mixed martial arts fight and think that's it. But no, we… — Bob Sapp Copy Share Image
