If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things;… — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
We artists! We moon-struck and God-struck ones! We death-silent, untiring wanderers on heights which we do not see as heights, but as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.' — Ronan Keating Copy Share Image
No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic. — JD Era Copy Share Image
“No poet, no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing… — Jose Bernardo Copy Share Image
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Where art and business intersect is a challenging hurdle for a lot of people, reconciling the fact that not everyone is going… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked… — Bert Greene Copy Share Image
I use this notepad onstage, mastering the art of not being professional. I'll do a joke that doesn't work on purpose, then… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
“The poet, when he wrote "Thou wilt come no more, gentle ANNIE," was clearly laboring under a mistake. If he had written… — Various Copy Share Image
For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about… — Ellen Forney Copy Share Image
A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford Copy Share Image
A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait. — Alvin Langdon Coburn Copy Share Image
O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I think people are feeling more artistic and creative with something like Instagram that makes editing easy. That's a good thing for… — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
It's a surreal experience filming promotion with Ryan Seacrest and meeting Top 40 pop artists. — Hozier Copy Share Image
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects. — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
“...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It's funny, but no matter how good an artist is, it's not until he stands on his own two feet and sticks… — Keith Whitley Copy Share Image
“Mr. Li gives Dale and me free lessons for life. Dale hates it. I enjoy kicking others, but would do better in… — SheilaTurnage Copy Share Image
Does anyone really believe a four-year degree is what separates an ethical person from a con artist? — Rich Paul Copy Share Image
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“Which, in morals, leads away from superstition, Which, in politics, leads away from government, and Which, in art, leads away from Tradition.” — Various Copy Share Image
