The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt… — Kari Matchett Copy Share Image
I was in film school, we were making a movie, and the teacher told me 'You cannot make movies like this.' I… — Darby Allin Copy Share Image
“Art is love-times-love; the creator loves it and his audience adores it. To miss the sensation of loving art is to miss… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
“For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
“if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
While filling color to someone's life to whom you really love & care, make sure to fill little color of joy &… — Navnath Godse Copy Share Image
They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see… — Iris van Herpen Copy Share Image
And one of the things I noticed pretty early on in art school was that my classmates had no notion of an… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Every child has known God, Not the God of names, Not the God of don'ts, Not the God who ever does Anything… — Hafiz Copy Share Image
Whether it's a song or a television show, or a book or poem, art is the thing that cracks me open and… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is… — Ursus Wehrli Copy Share Image
When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection,… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
There's a phrase that art is something created by the few and admired by the many. Now it's not created by the… — Eddie Rabbitt Copy Share Image
“Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
“When he craved contact, he stopped in to visit the Cézannes and Monets at the Musée du Luxembourg, believing they had already… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Every day I'm getting shaped and molded. Keepin' on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more… — Lil Baby Copy Share Image
... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Brahmacharya is not against sex. If it is against sex then sex can never disappear. Brahmacharya is a transmutation of the energy:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
“What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“The point is not to resist painful experiences or grasp at pleasant ones: that's a kind of craving - and craving leads… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
