The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Being an independent artist showed me that I don't need a label. Obviously, it helps. But I took my time choosing one… — Chappell Roan Copy Share Image
“No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you… — Kari Wahlgren Copy Share Image
I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to. — Nancy Sinatra Copy Share Image
I hit the road with a bunch of drag queens every year, sometimes two times a year. Again, as such a fan… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old.… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it… — Michelle Grabner Copy Share Image
Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
Stick to God! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else! Through the terrors of evil, say-my God, my… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“... so this is for us. This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and this is… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Besides a princess and a ballerina and a firefighter and a vet, I think I wanted to be an artist. — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
If I have a session with an artist who I've never worked with before, they don't have to meet my parents, you… — Syd Copy Share Image
You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“We all have some emptiness in our lives, an emptiness that some fill with art, some with God, some with learning. I… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“The truth is, we die a little every day. Yet somewhere between the ashes and the dawn, We must learn the quiet… — Jack Jizmejian Copy Share Image
“Our great artists battle on a landscape we cannot chart, with weapons we do not comprehend, against adversaries we find unreal.” — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
There's a lot of politics in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There's a lot us artists would change about the… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.) — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“Zen is also the art of disciplining oneself to fully live life in every way possible on a daily basis.” — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place. — Bono Copy Share Image
“The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.” — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me! — Romero Britto Copy Share Image
Take a martial art that you enjoy. Don't worry about the end result; just enjoy getting up and going to training. And… — Robert Whittaker Copy Share Image
Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
