“Perhaps an eternal law of art is that, for everything discovered, something of value is forgotten.” — Jan Swafford Copy Share Image
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality. — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
I don't feel that things need make their appeal exclusively to one demographic. I don't feel that there is truly great art… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Hema ji is a dedicated artist and a perfectionist who continues to rehearse on her lines till she gets them right. — Rakul Preet Singh Copy Share Image
We want artists to stay in London. It's very important culturally and economically, but there are lots of challenges in terms of… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Mori made an unwilling sound. 'I don't like Western art.' 'No look at this.' He lifted it from its package. It wasn't… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
How do you get into magazines? How can you get on TV or in your local newspaper? What can you do so… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Pretty much any artist that I know of that has found that mentor status, if they're generous and okay to bestow a… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“The food I eat in my imagination is more powerful and particular than what I consume in reality, just as a dream… — Kyung Ran Jo Copy Share Image
“Now in his nineties, Spock is writing a book on spirituality. But his understanding of spirituality is a far cry from that… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts. — Roberta Flack Copy Share Image
Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I try to not to overanalyze, not to watch myself too much, but to be present in life and in my art.… — Chrissy Metz Copy Share Image
Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I want people to understand and embrace that the art that inspires our technological dreams is just as important as the tech… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All martial arts is simply an honest expression of one's body - with a lot of deception in between. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two. — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
Having spent time on the Broadway stage definitely helps one's confidence in terms of feeling just validated in that world. Most people… — Jennifer Nettles Copy Share Image
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is essential for artistes to have that release of creativity, almost as necessary as eating food or drinking water. — Akshaye Khanna Copy Share Image
I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation. — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The last time I put out 'Raw,' that boosted me up in the underground to one of the top underground artists who… — Hopsin Copy Share Image
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good… — William Blake Copy Share Image
