But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist,… — Neige Copy Share Image
“The artist should thus derive the freest possible inspiration from his dream images and strive toward a "super realism" in which the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappearing in his art, dissolving in… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I had a few months of physical prep where I was training six hours a day - I was doing an hour… — Esme Creed-Miles Copy Share Image
“This is a story of art without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on… — J. Jack Halberstam Copy Share Image
I feel very grateful that for some reason I was raised to believe that I had permission to explore the creative world.… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
... and over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical)… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are… — Michelle Grabner Copy Share Image
What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality.… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house.… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
I see what sound engineers do as like painting. A good artist could paint that table so that it looks nothing like… — Glyn Johns Copy Share Image
“If you drop assumptions, and can anticipate the possibilities, you can master the art of strategy. However, if you can only manipulate… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“To say that church music is a functional art means, on the contrary, that it is composed, played, and sung “ to… — Brian A. Wren Copy Share Image
Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys… — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“War is like art. It paints a picture mixed with lies and truths in order to help one find something absolute. It… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I think every artist's next work will reflect a new chapter in their autobiography. Each album tells a story about where they… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Popular success is a wonderful gift if it happens, but like money, it's not the motivation. The effort to create a work… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple,… — Bernard Meltzer Copy Share Image
I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
You really see that the art world bends over for Hollywood sometimes, in this way that is really grotesque, and the other… — Thomas McDonell Copy Share Image
Street artists want to add something to the environment. They consider the audience, whereas graffiti writers don't care about anyone except themselves,… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
“Luigi, the art teacher, holds up his brush, and we all do the same. I’m not quite sure why we’re mirroring his… — Lauren Henderson Copy Share Image
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
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