Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It would, of course, be wrong to say that the arts have no social value. They have tremendous power and can often,… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Rembrandt painted portraits, The Karate Kid painted fences, and I paint my toenails. But I’m not a snob, I still consider those… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier! — Rachel Stevens Copy Share Image
“Art was, for Poe, the only method by which one could penetrate the shapeless empirical world in the search for order, and” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
“Just because I'm into this Does that mean I should live like it? And really do I dare?” — Tanya Davis Copy Share Image
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at… — Robbie Coltraine Copy Share Image
“Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My parents were in law enforcement, and I didn't really have any movie influences until I got out of Florida and went… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
I was only to see Mr. Chaplin once after 'The Kid.' A great artist, one of the greatest, but I'm afraid I… — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
Whenever I eat at a restaurant I never put the napkin in my lap. People say, 'Hannibal, why don't you put the… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time.… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
With a little effort we can turn anything which we thing of no value, to something which is a head turner… :-p — Gokul Copy Share Image
“Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholy a right seede : How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant… — Jeremiah 2:21 Copy Share Image
I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside. — Cheryl Rainfield Copy Share Image
People are not able to just make music anymore; we have to do things that don't necessarily make the art any better.… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Art and religion -they are the same thing, in the end, of course- have given man the only happiness he has ever… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents — Isaac Bonewits Copy Share Image
I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart… — Ralph Allen Copy Share Image
“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100%… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
“Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.” — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“Art has one purpose, that is to leave you changed. Love has one purpose, that is to create art.” — Julieanne O'Connor Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful… — Mary Barber Copy Share Image
Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I want to release music like a hip-hop artist. I want to write songs like a country music songwriter. And I want… — Jelly Roll Copy Share Image
To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
