Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All artists, no matter who they are, have always come into contact with criticism. No one's gonna like what you do 100… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art. — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very… — Julia Cameron 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 don't care what a man is. I mean, a great artist is like a great doctor. I don't care how racist… — Ernest J. Gaines Copy Share Image
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's… — Momus Copy Share Image
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence… — Richard Crashaw Copy Share Image
...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Every disruptive innovation is powered by a simplifying technology, and then the technology has to get embedded in a different kind of… — Clayton Christensen 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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'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
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
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
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
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. — Kim Jong Il 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
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
No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
