A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. — John Barth Copy Share Image
“What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The precept that location is key to the success of a business applies to art, and even to life itself: we thrive… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium,… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
I know as a consumer I want a story. I want a defining - I don't want just an album full of… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You know, I feel like the first attempts of an artist diving into a new forum is that you try and compare… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
“In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The art of conversation is to not only say the right thing at the right time, but to leave the wrong thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a… — James Joll Copy Share Image
“You have planted many seeds in the garden of possibilities. Meditation is the art removing the weeds from the garden of possibilities.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different… — Angel Deradoorian Copy Share Image
I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever. — Luke James Copy Share Image
I went to a public school in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and it's a very rural community. I was an artist kid, and… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
Just doing a project because its an opportunity wont create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate. — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said,… — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay… — Jerome Robbins Copy Share Image
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in how visual artists think because I think the way that I think about music is similar. I'm very… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and… — Georges Vantongerloo Copy Share Image
If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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