“Strictly speaking, nothing that’s said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can’t ever say it.)” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“diplomacy is also the art of postponing decisions until the problems resolve themselves.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Only someone authentic, with a deep love of art, will radiate the enthusiasm needed to keep them engaged” — Lisa Desrochers Copy Share Image
As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom… — Plato Copy Share Image
With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana… — Howard Thompson Copy Share Image
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
[A persons] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To… — Aaron Ruell Copy Share Image
Well, there's two things that happen when people experience something, whether it's a song, a television show, a film, a book or… — Sheryl Lee Copy Share Image
Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials.… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Sri Chinmoy is truly unique and special. He has rediscovered the lost art of special strength feats and weightlifting. He has got… — Bill Pearl Copy Share Image
Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object,… — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
“The peculiar circumstances arising out of the fall of the Syracusan tyranny seem to have produced the first practitioners of the art… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context.… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are,… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful. — Norbert Lynton Copy Share Image
All you can do is do good work, and do the good work for the sake of doing the good work and… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Bharatnatyam is defined in many ways and everyone has an opinion. But I see it as a consummate art - a kind… — Shobana Copy Share Image
The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art. — Manuel de Falla Copy Share Image
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them. — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
I collect furniture and modern art. And I never go to any parties. I rather prefer to go around in nature. — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Art, when inspired with love, leads to higher realms. Love art and that art will open for you the inner life. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist” — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
I'm a mixed martial arts fighter. But at the end of the day, all experience will help. And experience I got from… — Valentina Shevchenko Copy Share Image
When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
New York, to me, is the arts capital of the world. I just feel so inspired when I'm there. I would love… — Beth Behrs Copy Share Image
All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I feel like all artists have to come to L.A. at least once because it's just beautiful. It's peaceful. — Rico Nasty Copy Share Image
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