I just love the idea of being able to have a place where friends and family can meet, where you can raise… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
I think, honestly, hard work is the only way that you'll get anywhere and this is not an easy job. People think… — Jay Sean Copy Share Image
There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements -… — Jean-Claude Ellena Copy Share Image
To hear an artist be transparent is one of the greatest things they could ever do for their fans. I love that,… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature.… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective -… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“It was so much more. You allowed your feelings to spill onto the stage in a way everyone in that room could… — Kathryn Craft Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Remember when we didn't know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes… — Mona Adnan Copy Share Image
Relationships are so important to me. Talking to someone, listening to them, and even writing a handwritten note or giving someone a… — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The artist’s artistic brush stroke of colour... Fractionally exists within the art canvas cover... Unaware of its existence in the art’s totality...… — Hugh Shergill Copy Share Image
“Artists and activists offend the sensibilities of the rule-bound when they interfere with people”s ability to accept things in the private realm… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
“as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think.… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
I'm sure Madonna has been a huge influence for many female artists. Her live shows always make a massive impact; the sets… — BoA Copy Share Image
Mastering the art of seduction gives one a great power, and like any power, it's to be wielded with responsibility; a man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“BEAUTY. The visionary authority of Childs’s work resides, in part, in its lack of rhetoric. Her strict avoidance of cliché, and of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I am interested in Icons, not just religious works but also contemporary icons. I also like the way the Pop movement of… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism.… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
“What the young writer needs to develop, to achieve his goal of becoming a great artist, is not a set of aesthetic… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
“Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image