“Tell me something boss. What do you think is the highest form of art? 'Literature," he answered without hesitation. 'Painters and sculptors… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively.… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
For me, being Christian Armenian, born into the Islamic culture in Iran and then, at the age of 13, being sent to… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
“But is the Mona Lisa really art? Well then, what about an undetectably perfect copy of the Mona Lisa? That comparison (however… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump ] would make history in so many ways because he is a candidate who eschewed the traditional arts of political… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed...… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I deeply appreciate the CSA and its initiatives to build equity in the industry by giving a platform to marginalized artists and… — Brian Michael Smith Copy Share Image
“There's a great body of people who flower at night, who feel night is their time. Night is the time people truly… — John Crosby Copy Share Image
“And as the recession continues and our prospects look bleaker and bleaker, I’m excited. I look to the past to see what… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist.… — Nelly Copy Share Image
Like William Morris, Joe Hollis asks us to perceive paradise gardening as a juncture where artfulness directly serves life. In fact, we… — Jim Nollman Copy Share Image
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis,… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. And… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten,… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“When a computer creates art, who is the artist—the computer or the programmer? At MIT, a recent exhibit of highly accomplished algorithmic… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Obviously, something like ballet, you have music, you dance with the music and it's a very direct connection. With visual art, when… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
To get all the country music artists in one place at one time [means] you also can get autographs and pictures if… — Rascal Flatts Copy Share Image
Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are masses of people who need affordable housing in New York. I think that, politically, it is very difficult to give… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“III. ATTACK BY STRATAGEM 1. Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening,… — Tom Irwin Copy Share Image
We live in a world where art is always looked upon as the perfect medium. We live in a society where we… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image