The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
“The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts. — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up! — Max Liebermann Copy Share Image
The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to… — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be in the position I am now without social media. It has put a lot of power into the hands… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
I've been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I'm back in L.A., so if I… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
I'm doing what I love to do. Martial arts is my everything. It's my life, my philosophy, how I think, who I… — Valentina Shevchenko Copy Share Image
I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war."… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing. — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in… — Choi Hong Hi Copy Share Image
People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.” — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
“The art of exorcising machines has been lost for so long that we have not a single book of prayers and ceremonies… — Sean McMullen Copy Share Image
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone. — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just… — Marta Kauffman Copy Share Image
Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
