Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films. — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“One who argues that photography is not art, only looks at the photograph, they do not look into its meaning” — Katie Goodnough Copy Share Image
I guess standup is really painting pictures with words - especially for me, as I describe quite fantastical, visual things. My art… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
“On the Rules of Perspective A bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There's art and there's commerce. You have to find a way to mesh the two. It's important to do the little movies… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
Art is a dialogue. I'm throwing rocks across a chasm and hoping people catch them on the other side. — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask… — John Newton Copy Share Image
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful. — Jenni Rivera Copy Share Image
My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland. — David Russell Copy Share Image
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Conscience = Con + Science = the science of conning…it can always be turned into an art... — Nanda Jamshedpur INDIA Copy Share Image
The idea of artist as persona is something that I'm attracted to, so obviously Klaus Nomi is the leader of it. — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful… — Doseone Copy Share Image
“Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art… — Raymond Salvatore Harmon Copy Share Image
Drake is a man of the art, so he appreciates the new sounds and new music. He's always in tune with the… — Fivio Foreign Copy Share Image
I've always had this dream of doing an art gallery thing, and it was just finally, 'All right, let's do it.' — Josh Blue Copy Share Image
Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word. — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“the queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I saw the most beautiful moving painting at the art gallary the other day, but then I realized it was a mirror... — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I early on showed interest in the arts and I used to say, 'I'm an artist, I'm an artist.' — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
