“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” —Groucho Marx” — David Oliver Copy Share Image
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
For me, being an artist was a thing that, like, rich people in New York and L.A. and Paris and Rome did.… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It… — Vempati Chinna Satyam Copy Share Image
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned to treat mistakes as art: unexpected, instructive, and always worth an open mind.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.” — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC. — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I've always been such an album-driven artist that I never really stopped to think about how cool it would be to just… — Kyle Copy Share Image
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Exploration is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is… — John R. Stilgoe Copy Share Image
“The artist is a constructor of mirrors through which humanity can recognize their own beauty.” — Manuela Nicolini Copy Share Image
Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings. — Madi Diaz Copy Share Image
“Finn said art isn't about drawing or painting a perfect bowl of fruit. It's about ideas. And you, he said, have enough… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical. — Edna Longley Copy Share Image
Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution. — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
I don't think it pays to just be an artist, particularly for kids of color - there will be fewer roles. — Malik Yoba Copy Share Image
The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Artists know they need to have digital presences to build and bolster their fan base, and fans have exploited that fact. — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism. — Arik Roper Copy Share Image
Photoshop is an art, and you can do a lot with it. Change the atmosphere through different lighting and make the pictures… — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
