Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way… — Sarah Curran Copy Share Image
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When I'm creating art or music, when something is resonating or a scene is going well, that almost feels religious to me...… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
“No artist wants to stumble, certainly not in front of their audience, but sometimes that's what it takes” — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood. — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and… — Maria Sibylla Merian Copy Share Image
No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Only for those prepared to leave their familiar life behind, will life emerge in a new gown of continually expanding beauty and… — Hilma af Klint Copy Share Image
People would call me Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan or whatever popular martial artist there was at that time. I also remember… — Randall Park Copy Share Image
“How physical beauty turns out to be chemistry and geometry and anatomy. Art is really science. Discovering why people like something is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business,… — Dev Anand Copy Share Image
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I would say that most serious artists have a pretty complete idea of what they're going to do before they do it. — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
Bruno Mars. He is my favourite artist, and I always look forward to see him perform live. — Guru Randhawa Copy Share Image
We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“Visual journals are created in a secret language of symbols. Intentional or not, they are private maps only their makers can follow.” — Jennifer New Copy Share Image
Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words. — Coleman Young Copy Share Image
If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw. — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
I don't think that a lot of people understand the difference between therapeutic art and art therapy. — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited… — Joan Acocella Copy Share Image
“The supreme art is the art of being happy with the simplest things and the greatest artist is the person who performs… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer. — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
“One cannot be taught to write. One can only learn to write by writing—and reading. Reading good books written by real artists—until… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It was 'Shaolin Temple,' Jet Li's first movie. That was the movie that got me to want to learn martial arts. Then… — Daniel Wu Copy Share Image
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
