We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Whether artists know it or not, I think we're all a little influenced by what came before. — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
Appreciation is an art and a lifestyle and a source of happiness and fulfillment. It's called gratitude-an attitude of gratitude. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance. — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“If we will not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work, the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The right idea, one that is in productive sync with one’s talents, can unlock a whole worldview. If that idea is also… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“If you want to heal a broken heart, Be smart! That's all an ancient art. Start by loving the very small parts… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future. — John Elkann Copy Share Image
artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music. — Ryan Hurd Copy Share Image
Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery? — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“...the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice. — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV… — Jackson Beck Copy Share Image
