That's the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It's not about honesty… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I don't think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had. — Gary Holland Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is that life's closeness to death is its theme, not its addiction.” — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art” — Percy Shelley Copy Share Image
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“And so they would go on talking or rather, understanding, which has become the main art of speech in an age when… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
“Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, hollow be thy promises and shallow be thy shame. Thy kingdom come.… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“In the four hundred years since the last devouring soul appeared; the last man to know the meaning of ecstasy, there has… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
God cannot be represented by an image. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them. — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. — Dean Mitchell Copy Share Image
Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or… — Daniela Vega Copy Share Image
You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
I had to see if I'm a real filmmaker. I mean, I have proven myself in movies and franchises, but am I… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
I went to art school for four years to learn a very expensive lesson - that there are many other artists who… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
My constituents include CU Buffs, ski bums, techies, artists, suburban soccer moms, and proud, hard-working Colorado families. — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“A work of art broken into a million pieces cannot be pieced back together; it must be recreated into another art form… — Danielle Luz Matias Copy Share Image
As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
