“The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Because that’s what art is; that’s what it does. It breaks your heart. It moves you. If it doesn’t do that, forget… — Kate Klise Copy Share Image
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein… — Jens Jensen Copy Share Image
The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make… — David Rees Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
“This is what the great artists manage. They flatter us, by observing better than others and then speaking to each of us… — Tristan Gooley Copy Share Image
Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good,… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
“He is all my art to me now," said the painter gravely. "I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it's nice to not have to dread introductions. "What… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's… — Watkin Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
Man, says Protagoras, now has the wisdom necessary for life ... but he does not have political wisdom. At this point, people… — Paul Ludwig Landsberg Copy Share Image
I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres.… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
I started very young... I learned my martial arts first in the street. There were always fights. That's the culture in Brazil. — Vitor Belfort Copy Share Image
“Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists... eventually. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We are each a work in progress—special and unique. By learning and living the “Art of First Impressions,” you can design a… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Art is short for artificial…so the art of art is to be as real as you can within this artificial situation… In… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto. — Arthur Mattuck Copy Share Image
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
I want to be known to fans and appreciated as a 'boxer-painter' in regards to speed, footwork, punching power - an art… — Vasyl Lomachenko Copy Share Image
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they… — Jim McDonough Copy Share Image
I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist… — Julie Doucet Copy Share Image
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form. — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
“[P]art of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not… — Janet Gonzalez-Mena Copy Share Image
We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality. — Rufino Tamayo Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down. — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
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