Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun. — Jet Li Copy Share Image
I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a… — Berenice Bejo Copy Share Image
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm so interested in the feminism of women in American music. These ladies, going out on the road, way before the opportunities… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It's not that I can't find art beautiful. I just don't know what to do, standing there in the gallery. I don't… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I didn't go to high school, I didn't go to college, I didn't have women's studies. All of my feminist ideals and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my vast language?” “Yea,… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
To be honest, I'm selfish as an artist. I'm doing what I want to do and what I want to hear. — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
It's interesting that female artists are underrepresented in exhibitions. That may be down to the fact that the people in power in… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Sometimes artists can have the same sound, but they can give you a show that makes you see it in a completely… — Mr. Carmack Copy Share Image
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
“Conquer thyself, till thou hast done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Right now, black female artists are the most interesting people to think about. People are ready to hear whatever we're gonna say,… — Tink Copy Share Image
Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness. (essay : Hölderlin And The Essence Of Poetry, chapter from my copy of The origin… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
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