No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
With the art films I've done, you know, I got to work in a way that so few actors get to work… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I love it when people come in my house and ask for my paintings off the wall, and I have to tell… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women… — Barry White Copy Share Image
“Olivia was so beautifully broken. The hairline cracks in her personality were more pieces of art than flaws. I loved flawed art.” — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Figuring out how to scale the very human art of personalization is difficult, but I believe that it is also the key… — Katrina Lake Copy Share Image
“While Elstir, at my request, went on painting, I wandered about in the half-light, stopping to examine first one picture, then another.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces — John Reed Copy Share Image
It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young,… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse,… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
“Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating. — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation . — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working. — Stephen De Staebler Copy Share Image
Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and… — Myrtle Aydelotte Copy Share Image
The Miu Miu world is a very daring, fun and curious one that encourages and nurtures artists to develop who they are… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school. — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable!… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
