All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door. — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
“Faking a smile The only art I'll make sure you'll never have to master” — Ismaaciil C. Ubax Copy Share Image
Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera. — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me.” — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Because art does for me what religion does-- it organizes a seemingly chaotic world. Because it is my way of making sense… — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'... — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
I always longed to have someone who would just be there for me. Of course I have Tom. I'm extremely happy that… — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice… As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We teach the karate methodology, bringing back the history of the martial art, the attacks that stopped being used when the martial… — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
A creation made right after another. Each one made either by the neat strokes of an artist hand, or by the sloppy… — Music Copy Share Image
“The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, "is that there are… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
