Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we… — John Guare Copy Share Image
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
To be able to inspire somebody just by doing something that you love, just by creating your art, is something that's very… — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
I think when artists close their ears to any music, when they won't do anything besides country music or rock music, they… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named… — Al-Farabi Copy Share Image
You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Artists who painted natural curiosities found themselves documenting a world emerging and disappearing at the same time, a brief encounter as species… — Kim Todd Copy Share Image
Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene… — Andrew Jack Copy Share Image
“ON A DAY LATE THAT JANUARY, I READ AGAIN “EAST Coker” by the poet T. S. Eliot, and saw something that I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I buy based on emotion, because I am fascinated with an object that I simply cannot live without. Although I often end… — Michael Audain Copy Share Image
“So perhaps the reason I shuddered at the idea of writing something about 'Christian art' is that to paint a picture or… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man… — Geoffrey Jellicoe Copy Share Image
Believe me, I grow daily more convinced that the atmosphere is an inexhaustible source of countless beauties. It is up to we… — Mario de Sa-Carneiro Copy Share Image
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting… — Thomas McDonell Copy Share Image
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and… — Paul Park Copy Share Image
She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. — Neal Cassady Copy Share Image
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction. — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important. — David Elliott Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.” — Marina Abramović Copy Share Image
Homoeopathy is insignificant as an art of healing, but of great value as criticism on thehygeia or medical practice of the time.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Across generations, the torch-bearers of Carnatic music have mastered the art form of connection. — Sid Sriram Copy Share Image
My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am. — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
I'm a well rounded artist and I love to make music and create and be different. Hopefully I get the opportunity to… — Tony Sunshine Copy Share Image
I go through every single emotion. My artistic life will likely be shorter than it could be because everything is for real… — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
