A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance. — H. W. Janson Copy Share Image
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too. — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't… — Lucien Smith Copy Share Image
“It’s the highest art form, deceiving without lying. A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence… — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art, — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
My favorite artist was probably Jay-Z. He's the one who inspired me to start writing music. He's a wordsmith. He's very clever.… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I think that there are artists of different genres whose calling is to use their art to hope to affect and better… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became… — Brian Epstein Copy Share Image
My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
“It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with he frame than with the artwork itself.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Every dream, every vision is a masterpiece canvas on the wall of our minds. So as artists we should make an effort… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
When we released 'Chaos A.D' it was really hard for a metal artist to survive. Everything was grunge. Everywhere you looked was… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice. — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you're not as emotionally invested in your music as I believe true artists are, then I don't have to say you… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
