I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful,… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
People forget that boxing is the art of self-defence - ideally, hit and not be hit - and maybe we should all… — Amir Khan Copy Share Image
“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
I made my living as an actor, and I love acting, so I'm an actor. But that gets you in a lot… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
“In the fall nature informs of its artistic side. It continues to confirm the beauty of the world. Nature is art perfected.” — Nature is art Fall season Art informs Copy Share Image
I was a complete anomaly in this business. I didn't fit into the Hema Malini-Zeenat Aman commercial cinema mould, neither the Shabana… — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
My paintings used to be so realistic and I found it a little bit boring, especially now that I'm in New York.… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
“Mr Freeman: "Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag." He sticks his finger down his throat.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
I'm still the same artist; it's just different sides of me. I'm learning to be a little bit more confident in myself… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
“Promoting my first novel has been a vulnerable experience. I know many artists and for the first time, I truly understand the… — Pádraig O'Gorman Copy Share Image
Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a… — Jack White Copy Share Image
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. --Havelock Ellis — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the only way to understand an artist is to wear his shoes, to get inside him. Then everything else flows naturally.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that. — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I have been fortunate enough to see many places of this earth and most certainly a lot of art, but I would… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Let it be said that the makeup artist at '90210' made me look better for the fake red carpet than I've ever… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE"... To whom?.. To where?...… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
