I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
Why is it when miley cyrus gets naked and licks a sledge hammer its art and music. But when I do it… — Fading_scars Copy Share Image
“All outstanding work, in art as well as in science, results from immense zeal applied to a great idea.” — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share Image
There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness… — Josef von Sternberg Copy Share Image
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back… — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind… — William James Copy Share Image
That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“New York is the concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance, bringing to a single compact… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
You'd think that it was really hard for me to turn into North Carolina prostitute, but I didn't think of her like… — Ana Mulvoy-Ten Copy Share Image
“In one of its aspects, art is a technique for focusing attention, for teaching skills of attention. The history of the arts… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way.… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“When we play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
To work in your first film, in your debut as a lead, to work with the finest artists of the country -… — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything. — Marlon Wayans Copy Share Image
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself… — Roger Ballen Copy Share Image
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. — Jim Hodges Copy Share Image
I'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively. — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
If I open a Batman book, and he doesn't look right, I can't do it. It has so much to do with… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your… — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. — David Amram Copy Share Image
I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the… — David Hare Copy Share Image
The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not… — Tony Jaa Copy Share Image
“Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? I believe life imitates art the imitates life.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
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