Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation. Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
My goal is to continue working with passionate, driven, artists who are willing to think out of the box, and to keep… — Nicholas Galitzine Copy Share Image
I always wanted to act. I am very passionate about the art. So when I got the opportunity, I was more than… — Shaheer Sheikh Copy Share Image
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
“I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.” — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think digital media is a valid tool, one that has it's own strengths and weaknesses. So often I see people dismissing… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is… — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I feel that homophobia runs rampant in the music industry, and that artists are allowed to speak openly in a hateful way,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult,… — Charles E. Burchfield Copy Share Image
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a gay or a straight artist. I don't make gay records - I make records. — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not. — Bas Rutten Copy Share Image
“The artists of various sects, like the theologians of the various sects, mutually exclude and destroy themselves.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I feel that in the music industry there are so many artists it's easy to be forgotten because it's so cluttered. — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain.” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
For our Spring 2015 collection, I was inspired by the spirit of the artist Francoise Gilot. — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown.… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I make art for one person and one person only. And as soon as I find that one person, I sure hope… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression. — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think that there should be more artists that want to be the escape for people, for the fans, for the public. — Poppy Copy Share Image
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.” — Abigail Biddinger Copy Share Image
You've rarely got an artist that's not being chauffeured into the business by some huge-ass names. — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
I think culture and art tell you what the soul of a nation is, and if we continue to chip away at… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves. — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
