Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a… — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Ian sighed wanly. "I once had the means to be gaga over art–before I found myself in a country where the standard… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be… — Jim Drain Copy Share Image
“The watercolor people hadn’t moved, hadn’t seen us, were still busy being dead and artistic. Good.” — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
On the artist side, we made a significant investment in very young artists from the very beginning of their careers and helped… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I was lucky to live in New York when it was dangerous and edgy and cheap enough to play host to young,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In country music, we are still behind the times. Outside of country music, it wouldn't be new to anyone to be a… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
“The intrinsic non-existence at the heart of entity is what Spare designated the Kiã, and he strove to convey his vision in… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
I don't collect art at all. I'm fascinated by art. I receive a lot of presents. My house is full of things,… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know,… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Over the years, El Perro del Mar became this artist that, every record that came out, I just loved it. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“Progressive thinking is the art of seeing tomorrow’s solutions in today’s limitations, where others see barriers, the visionary see blueprints for evolution.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
My kids, I love it when they tell me, 'Abba, I want to be an artist.' And I say, that is awesome...… — Jonny Kim Copy Share Image
You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they… — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change. — Lee Hammond Copy Share Image
Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up,… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“The night belonged to the bold, to the crazed and to the artist--often one and the same” — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“set me a task in witch i can put something of my very self and it is a task no longer,it is… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.” — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with… — John Kurtz Copy Share Image
The people of U.P. are very simple and grounded. They take pleasure in admiring arts and cinema. This is why it is… — Hiten Tejwani Copy Share Image
I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
