The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's… — Banksy Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
“The whole Epistle is so methodical, that even its very beginning is framed according to the rules of art.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I always tell my audiences not to listen to such artists who play audio CDs at their concerts. Such shows shouldn't be… — Guru Randhawa Copy Share Image
I had really nice parents, and a very smart mother, but they weren't into art or anything. I didn't know what art… — Peaches Copy Share Image
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
We should all be proud of the many contributions Hellenes have made in our society, especially in the areas of science, medicine,… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at… — Luther E. Vann Copy Share Image
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If you ask me whether I can direct, I can. In fact, I have shot several songs, scenes and stunts. When certain… — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game,… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish… — Nate Diaz Copy Share Image
I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I think I grew up in an 'acultural' household - no books, no paintings, never went to an art gallery. I say… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I have always had a heavy built and have been into all sorts of physical activities like weight training and martial arts. — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
“And that’s the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
“Artist get better by sharpening their skills or by acquiring new ones; they get better by learning to work, and by learning… — David Bayles and Ted Orland Copy Share Image
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
“the protocols of such gatherings, the sophisticated hypocrisies of supposed art lovers coming to an art show in order to ignore the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist. — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image