“philosophizing happened only because other activities offered the occasion or the stimulation for it. What were these activities? They appeared most prominently… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
It's a very tricky job we have as DPs, where you are expected to make something that really is an emotional art… — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are scared when they see trumpet players show up - they like, 'Nah, that ain't what I want.'… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the… — David Elliott Copy Share Image
“The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: compared with Gothic art, above all in… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
“So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
You can't make an artist like Lady Gaga. You can help support, you can help develop the vision - I think you… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to… — Ed Harris Copy Share Image
Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions,… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
When I was younger I would always listen to female artists that are my age now and I felt like I couldn't… — Beatrice Miller Copy Share Image
You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
“Artists operating within the theistic worldview have a solid basis for their work. Nothing is more freeing than for them to realize… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
“One time, over half of my warlords refused to attend a summit because I had failed to properly address them by the… — K.S. Villoso Copy Share Image
“do you want to know how to seduce the night? this is not a poem about the stars or the moon because… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
“Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence; Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part. They taught me to… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it.… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“The gaze of others is quite without indulgence for our defects and that of Mantegna is pitiless. I am grateful to him.… — Marie Ferranti Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result,… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Making art, being creative, is risky, especially for actors, but everybody on the set is being creative. You're putting yourself out there… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers… — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“A famous artist is approached by a student. "You don't remember me," the student says correctly, "but years ago you said something… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both… — Brad Delson Copy Share Image
I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
I am grateful to organizations like the International Child Art Foundation that gives us the opportunity to see the world through the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
An artist's initial broad stroke is always most impactful, and obsessively adding layer upon layer of paint to fill in details often… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image