but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The innocent beauty of a young love, repeated and filtered by the minds of poetic and passionate young manga artists - no… — Nakkinak Copy Share Image
I'm desperate to arrive... to this next phase where we can just exist and be fully liberated from the confines of having… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
“The special problem here is that the artistic medium of fiction writers—language—is not innately sensual. The medium is unforgiving whenever we look… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Years ago I decided that the greatest need in our Country was Art... We were a very young country and had very… — Isabella Stewart Gardner Copy Share Image
Schiaparelli’s collaborations with Dali and Cocteau as well as Prada’s Fondazione Prada push art and fashion ever closer, in a direct, synergistic,… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he… — John Coplans Copy Share Image
“Some centuries ago they had Raphael and Michael Angelo; now we have Mr. Paul Delaroche, and all because we are progressing. You… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Reviewers, critics, guest editors... Such people may have an eye for literary conventions and contrivances, allusions and innovations on the art. But… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I thought that if I couldn’t make a living as an artist, at least I shouldn’t starve. By the time I had… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me. It's the "Braveheart" moment, the stuff Joseph Campbell… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Being a musician and artist can feel superficial at times - you talk about yourself every day and pose for photos for… — Yuna Copy Share Image
The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw painted this picture in 500 B.C. for the Mesolithic era was a period of transition more noteworthy for its important… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“You cannot reach lofty heights in art if you do not first discover the unsurpassable beauty in your own heart. If you… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel… — Willie Aames Copy Share Image
The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much… — Ed Benguiat Copy Share Image
Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I had just returned to Woodstock from the Midwest - from my father's funeral. The previous week had left me drained. I… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I think functioning as a business manager can be a hindrance to having a real dialogue with the artist. I do think… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Being a new artist, I was trying to make a good album and hope that people like Kool Moe Dee and Melle… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets,… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, English artists like the Rolling Stones and Joe Cocker began recording in the States, and at that point,… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image