I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist. — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The arts..are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists. — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo,… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
From the artist's standpoint, are you getting more from streaming than you used to, prior to the days of the Internet? No… — Myles Kennedy Copy Share Image
The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
“How long does it take to see something, to know someone? If you put in years, you realize how little you grasped… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs. — Orlan Copy Share Image
You can have integrity with your art, but worrying about integrity doesn't pay the bills. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
“In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds. This is true. I… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“You really are an artist, aren’t you? You think it’s all about you, and you never stop looking for pain.” — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
“If you should attempt to maintain that film is an art in conversation with a cultured, intelligent American, he'll just plain stop… — Ilya Ilf Copy Share Image
Every artiste vies for that one role, which takes her a level up, where people start recognising your work and acknowledging the… — Rupali Ganguly Copy Share Image
“I knew nothing at all of the art of diplomacy, which I have since diagnosed as the ability to make the nastiest… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I was one of the artistic directors of the Steppenwolf Theatre, which me and many dear buddies started all the way back… — Jeff Perry Copy Share Image
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Art is anything you can get lost in. It's a place to escape and a place to find yourself.” — Heloise Clough Copy Share Image
If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Book-matched marble is one of the truest ways to showcase the natural beauty of the stone and can become a statement piece… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image