And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The culinary world is a fascinating place that has been influenced over the centuries by culture, religion, fashion, war, art, science and,… — John Torode Copy Share Image
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to… — Beth Gibbons Copy Share Image
I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist, even at the age of 15, and people used to laugh at me. It was the… — Duffy Copy Share Image
“(I also believe that the most meaningful change, where individuals can triumph over both entropy and evolution as it were, comes when… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Christian love is the only kind of love in which there is no rivalry, no jealousy. There is jealousy among the lovers… — George Matheson Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's… — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
“Arturo Vega: I always thought the ONLY way to really conquer evil is to make love to it. My favourite dream is… — Legs McNeil Copy Share Image
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room. — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort. — Robert Edmond Jones Copy Share Image
I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“Great art, I've always felt, is like a pearl; thousands of layers of creativity and sensibility built up around an inner core… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions. — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Its funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than with the artwork itself. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
“(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.” — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another. — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible. — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
“Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.” — Joan Acocella Copy Share Image
“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the… — Dorothy Nevill Copy Share Image