I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
“I'm used to the security of living behind my online profiles and the clip art advertisements I create to define me. I… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
Art as radar acts as an early alarm system, as it were, enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all.… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“Every piece of art starts as an empty canvas, a lump of clay, or a mixture of fabrics and colors. It's all… — Mick Mooney Copy Share Image
I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The sense of having to be the best at everything gets in the way of anybody doing anything. I put all that… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
The whole art of ecstasy, meditation, samadhi, is: How to become one with the rhythm of the universe. When it exhales, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“With the truth, one cannot live. To be able to live one needs illusions, not only outer illusions such as art, religion,… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If it weren't for Criminal Records, Wax-n-facts and other indie record stores I could have only sold my CD's at my shows… — Shawn Mullins Copy Share Image
... what is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything… — James Burton Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when… — Elizabeth Grosz Copy Share Image
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe… — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
“She jerked her hand back and shot me what could only be described as a 'bitch' look. Frankly, it was a fucking… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
“The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come… — PSY Copy Share Image
But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first… — Grandmaster Flash Copy Share Image
If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze."… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear… — Orlan Copy Share Image
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