“Nevertheless, we react to one a bit differently than we do to Rothko’s hovering panels or Barnett Newman’s stripes, though Whistler does… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record,… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I love the challenges of, ultimately, the examination of what it is to be a human being in this world. I mean… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
I chose 'The Voice' because I knew they had a lot more respect for each artist, as opposed to the other shows.… — Will Champlin Copy Share Image
Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training… — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled,… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
What people are feeling is the similarity in what I do and how I'm capable of breaking a new artist into a… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving… — Eric Jensen Copy Share Image
The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I happen to like regionalism, whatever that means. I like the idea of art that somehow specifically reflects some aspect of a… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Italy is certainly the native country of this art: and yet, I do not find the people in general either more musically… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thou art merciful; when all my endeavour is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavour is turned toward me; when I look… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
“The more gifted of these individuals became writers or artists. Even though they were able to point to the truth in the… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
Yeah, I guess for years I wanted to be an artist, and when I was growing up, lots of my family were… — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Once something gets noticed and people love you, most of the makers want to put you in the same bracket, feeling this… — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness… — Sridevi Copy Share Image
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“And yes—scholars might care about the innovative brushwork and use of light, the historical influence and the unique significance in Dutch art.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
We use technology in service of the art, as a storytelling tool - and if we want to do something that's never… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various… — Leon Askin Copy Share Image
It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us,… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
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