Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An artist creates songs and timeless moments that are reflections that impact culture, and you can do that in any way -… — Skrillex Copy Share Image
Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
“Once I've mastered the art of pretending that I don't care what other kids think of me, I start to pay attention… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
I like the idea of seeing a film that has the artist's hand in there,a film where you can see his strokes,… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
My main influences - I loved art. I sounds a little pretentious to say I was into art but I liked drawing.… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
You can actually take your pain and processes it into some kind of form of art. So I mean, I've easily always… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I went to theater school in Toronto for four years and grew up around actors, and things like headshots could cost you… — Mena Massoud Copy Share Image
Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In my early career I was sort of anti-drag. I said, 'Drag is dumb and boring, and I want to be an… — Alaska Copy Share Image
Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
I went to Northampton College of Further Education. I left there - when I was 16, I left Kingsthorpe Upper - and… — Marc Warren Copy Share Image
“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
As an artist, let the creativity be the priority as often as you can, even though we all understand that there are… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
“Nine Principles Never have a wicked heart. Train not by thought, but by practice. Learn a wide variety of arts and skills,… — Kazumi Tabata Copy Share Image
“The next time you feel yourself giving in to the sometimes overwhelming urge to panic about the fate of literature in the… — Adam Hammond Copy Share Image
I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
“Father thou art in heaven, please make my inside so good and so fine that he can love me. I'm going to… — Irmgard Keun Copy Share Image
“Literature under despotism: “The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I'll take any opportunity to make costumes for my daughters and me, and it makes Halloween a weeklong bonanza of multiple costumes,… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace,… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The having of the ideas is quite otherworldly. And then the making of the art itself is quite scientific. It's a combination.… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
“I wonder if it matters that what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As much as I love to slay a red carpet hitting the ground running with 'Beale Street' and 'Native Son,' representing two… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being…It happens… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
On 'Idol,' you have to show off your vocal abilities, so I stuck to the ballads, so I'm glad my first single… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
“The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
