And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of… — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image
For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
“Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In cities across the world, directors of leading arts institutions, galleries and museums know that when it comes to attracting locals to… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“An author named Arthur Arthurson would write about art, love, and road kill in Kenya. And I’d read him because I’m a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't. — Francois Pinault Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any. — Emma Albani Copy Share Image
“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or… — Lena Andersson Copy Share Image
Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into… — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people. — Julian Beever Copy Share Image
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school. — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
My stepfather was in the navy, so I got to know a side of Chile that is not what you would expect… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
