The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.” — Christopher Caudwell Copy Share Image
Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse. — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
In my generation, we sort of let the art speak for itself. We don't disclose our personal private lives. — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
The difference between wrestling in singles and in tags, there's just a different art to it. There's a mentality. — Christopher Daniels Copy Share Image
There is an art to wrestling, and there is a need to do it right. Cody Rhodes exemplifies all the right things. — Bret Hart Copy Share Image
What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Take a long, scenic walk back to your rooms. Look around you. More than anything, we need to work on how we… — Elise Hooper Copy Share Image
If you look at reggae and dancehall artists in general, there isn't really a big success story. A Shabba Ranks or a… — Shaggy Copy Share Image
So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Kerry James Marshall especially was a huge influence on me in graduate school, as were Wangechi Mutu and Julie Mehretu. These artists… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work. — Rebecca Horn Copy Share Image
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The art of peace is medicine for a sick worldit does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on… — Billie Burke Copy Share Image
What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that's not becoming to you as an artist, that's your fault. — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
Working with my friend Sir Antony Sher is truly one of the highlights of my career as an artist. — John Kani Copy Share Image
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time,… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
