For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual,… — Alexej von Jawlensky Copy Share Image
Mystery is great, that's what art is and I think when you can leave your imagination to grow, it's good. I just… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I like pop music, especially Crosby, Nash, Stills and Young, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon - he's broken up with Art Garfunkel… — Caroline, Princess of Hanover Copy Share Image
“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If there is a main problem in American art today,” says critic Tom Piazza, “it is not that we need the new… — James Bau Graves Copy Share Image
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this… — D.A. Wallach Copy Share Image
I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and… — Michael Lang Copy Share Image
Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“… the conjunction of Beethoven’s last symphonic masterpiece with crucial works or events in the lives of so many other outstanding artists… — Harvey Sachs Copy Share Image
Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
If I can reach the guy in Alabama that hunts, and he hears that song, and he sees me - like, he's… — Luke Combs Copy Share Image
I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one… — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life…Live simply. Don’t… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
When I look at my childhood art, it's the same. It's animals dressed up as people in patterned clothing. It basically looked… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I think that music is stale because of it. I think that we have the same artists from day to day. It's… — Willa Ford Copy Share Image
When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who… — Marjorie Celona Copy Share Image
I definitely believe that the power of the artist is in the artist's hands now. We're kind of in the wild, wild… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public… — Banksy Copy Share Image
If someone doesn't like another artist's song, that's their prerogative. But now it's kind of scary, and I never thought of it… — Havana Brown Copy Share Image
I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes… — Mitchel Musso Copy Share Image
From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
