The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Innovative CIOs with bold leadership styles are the key to re-imagine IT for achieving the art of possible.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.” — Luke Slattery Copy Share Image
Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken.… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“I asked Geertrui the other day what she thought love is-real love, true love. She said that for her real love is… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
With my childhood and growing up in a very free place where my parents were artists and always encouraging me to explore,… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven.… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some… — Karen O Copy Share Image
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
I started this martial arts journey 20 years ago with karate, and I never imagined it would come to pass that I… — Tecia Torres Copy Share Image
I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple,… — Court McGee Copy Share Image
The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment. — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
“What they achieved in art and literature is familiar to everybody, but what they did in the purely intellectual realm is even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
It is great to know that the lives and careers of country music's artists are being documented through the Hall of Fame's… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
I feel like when I fight it's an art, and Art isn't supposed to be 'nice', it isn't supposed to be liked.… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
“Sorrow fades," he muttered as he retrieved the last fragment, "grief dies, but Art lives forever.” — Kenyon Gambier Copy Share Image
It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
When an artiste says that, after two heavy films, let me do a light one, somewhere they want to balance it out… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
