It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get… — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea.… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I was always a little bit of a collector and a hoarder. And whenever I got involved in anything, whatever it was… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then… — Keenen Ivory Wayans Copy Share Image
I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes,… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
I want to see more people of different backgrounds being cast in films. I want to see people from inner cities being… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Merantau' was my attempt to infuse drama with martial arts. It was a bit of a mixed bag for me. I'm super… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
“She has the kind of beauty that takes your breath from your lungs, tears from your eyes and speeds your heart each… — Kirk Diedrich Copy Share Image
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Art should be able to be innovative without compromising itself. That's why I believe artists should have bigger preoccupations than checking the… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
When I think that I started this career so early, my case is not the case of an artist who becomes popular… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of… — Raymond Rubicam Copy Share Image
“Art invites us to become explorers and excavators of our vast internal landscapes, discovering new terrain and digging deep into the past… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It's of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It's… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Of course you have to provide for the vulnerable and the children, but also, the vulnerable and the children need art in… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Fair enough,” he said. “But I went to that party sophomore year because I found out you were going and … I wanted… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“But the long tunnels of art through which I walked in Rome that day had no ragged edges, cowardly colors, or shades… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask,… — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The Australian Gerald Murnane, a genius on the level of Beckett, is known in Australia and Sweden but almost nowhere else. And… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share,… — Julie Moir Messervy Copy Share Image
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
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