Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected. — John Dee Copy Share Image
I've worked with so many different artists, and I'm always willing to expand and do some new fun things as long as… — Flo Rida Copy Share Image
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
“Perhaps cinema is the most personal art, the most intimate. In cinema only the author's intimate truth will be convincing enough for… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
That's what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Whenever a dope artist comes out of nowhere, the first thing you do is try and compare it to stuff until you… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Don't worry if people think you're good. Make this your experience. And find out what makes you unique as an artist. You… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
“Music is the great unifier. It doesn’t matter which country you’re in or what language is being spoken, the fans just magically… — J.M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
One is never done growing as an artiste. So, it's important to find roles that challenge me and make me learn new… — Jasmin Bhasin Copy Share Image
“Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the… — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
I have fought all over the world, and I am excited to be in 'EA Sports MMA' because this game is going… — Fedor Emelianenko Copy Share Image
“Confidence, like art, never comes from having all answers.It comes from being open to all questions.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one. — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
Regularly in music videos, I'll write the pitch and convince the artists that this is a good idea, and then I'm having… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
As a student of Alice Waters, the patron saint of salad, I'm no stranger to the art of lettuce washing. — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I never used to get calls from artists or labels, but once you have a top 20 hit, you start getting them. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
When you're, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don't really take the time… — SZA Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
“Seduction, he knew, was both science and art—a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
