“I read that I profess, the Art of Love. Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art! Lucentio: While you,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I'm a straight lady, the best in Hollywood. There is an art to playing the straight role. You must build up your… — Margaret Dumont Copy Share Image
An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist. — Yuna Copy Share Image
“A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Not every artist can make a masterpiece, yet it’s the experiments that quietly stumble forward that lead to them. There’s an altogether… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
“I love the French and Italian church paintings from the Middle Ages. But I'm also interested to learn more about who was… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
“My desk was a present from Margaret Atwood. After Zen and the Art of Uterus Maintenance sold its first million, she said… — Nuala Ní Chonchúir Copy Share Image
For a while I was a completely unknown artist with no fan base and no draw in the clubs. The only people… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
“Being an artist doesn't take much. Just everything you got. Which means of course that as the process is giving you life,… — Hubert Selby Jr Copy Share Image
I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time. — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
“I think anything like that- which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone- people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today? — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music. — John Legend Copy Share Image
“Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].” — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do. — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
I was in the top 10 rock n' roll artists - up there with Sid Vicious. I always had that edge. — Lee Ryan Copy Share Image
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I started thinking about it, I was like, 'OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I'll be… — Common Copy Share Image
“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm a lifelong martial artist and to have an arena to test my skills is essential for me. — Dan Hardy Copy Share Image
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Scapegrace leaped up. “I am the Killer Supreme! I make murder into an art form!” Skulduggery hit him again and Scapegrace did… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
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