Egyptians are quite incredible people. They have everything: the culture, the music, the scenes. So much of Arab music and art started… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible… — Rockwell Kent Copy Share Image
When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know. — Emma Anderson Copy Share Image
You've really got to appreciate an artist that's really outspoken and feels like his music can change the world. — Rakim Copy Share Image
For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art… — Kano Jigoro Copy Share Image
“The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to be in predominantly white situations in the educational system. My parents are educators, and I went… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
“From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it's worth a lot. — Afeni Shakur Copy Share Image
All comic-book artists secretly want a successful television or movie project because of the wider audience. — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
I love to look at all those young artists' work and then bring them in, have them work with me at shows. — Pat McGrath Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that art can change the world. But at least art can help us to unveil life.” — Eugene Lim Copy Share Image
I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; and I look on it as the touch-stone… — Carlo Blasis Copy Share Image
I can work with all these different kinds of artists and still be able to come up with huge records. Not just… — Mike Will Made It Copy Share Image
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
When we go back to Samoa, where my mother was born, we always check out the art by local artists. — Timothy F. Cahill Copy Share Image
The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
At art school you realize that in order to stay engaged you have to ignore the critics, good and bad. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I started work as a makeup artist at the BBC, which was a vibrant, exciting and caring place. — Dave Myers Copy Share Image
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
I remember when I first went to the Baltimore Museum of Art and I bought this little Moreau print in the gift… — John Waters Copy Share Image
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of… — John Sebastian Copy Share Image
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image