It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Art is a concept used for making your soul grow. It's God's way of showing you that you also have the power… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground. — Jane Badler Copy Share Image
So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives.… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
Film used to have to be niche and find its audience in a little art house cinema, and TV had to work… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
I think that once you're able to sort of get in line with who and how you relate to the world, you'll… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I was addicted to rhythm 'n' blues pretty much directly into folk music. I had my little 45s of mostly black artists.… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?' — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, love isn't always the coup de foudre --the lightning strike. Sometimes it happens quietly, so quitely you may not… — Julia Justiss Copy Share Image
The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music. — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's… — Joseph C Zinker Copy Share Image
“I believe, that creating is a joyful activity as well as a meaningful suffer, and thus, it is an integral part of… — Gabor Gürtler Copy Share Image
Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light. — Jerzy Grotowski Copy Share Image
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the… — Rashad Evans Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, when I made my debut, an artiste would get easily stereotyped. So I only got the roles of didis,… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
“Great art might not be popular, but it is always born out of non-linear, non-formulaic thinking.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your… — Mark McGrath Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3… — William Klein Copy Share Image
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration. . . . — Wayne D. Dosick Copy Share Image
Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art. — Seth Copy Share Image
