When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't think art changes the world, because if it did then we'd live in a better world. But it can change… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, I knew some painters older than myself. I was kind of the kid who was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The thing in comedy is that once you start worrying about something not succeeding, you're frozen. There's no verdict on anything. You… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
“We are going to make a country in which no one is left out." FDR to Fraces Perkins quoted in Furious Improvisations:… — Susan Quinn Copy Share Image
I don't go to galleries every day because it's so rare that I like what I see. There's a lot of bad… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
“[there are] two kinds of things the nature of which it would be quite wonderful to grasp by means of a systematic… — Plato Copy Share Image
I think, for me, not to get too dark, my self-worth is very much wrapped up in my ability to be a… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth. It is thy desire in us that… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“On my solemn oath, Edmund, I'd gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big… — Jude Deveraux Copy Share Image
We're all busy. It's a very fast-paced world. And art - and by that, I mean culture in a wider sense -… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“In one of the most scathing of these reviews, New York Times critic Robert Palmer wrote: “He has mastered the art of… — Hank Bordowitz Copy Share Image
“The historian Cassiodorus believed that the selective destruction of Alaric, as regards the Greek monuments, was of good effect. Alaric had some… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“website optimization, which is the art and science of enhancing the user experience of a website with the goal of converting users… — Richard Stokes Copy Share Image
Like, the smells and the sights and the sounds. As an artist, you want to sort of be able to engage that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In college I took an acting class as a joke. It sounded like something fun and easy at the time. I had… — Michael Graziadei Copy Share Image
“The Talmud is not only an encyclopedia of law but a work of folk art, a hymn to the Lord rising out… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words,… — Gabriel Ba Copy Share Image
One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So:… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
I get upset when people knock hip-hop, because I can absolutely see the musicality in it. These days, when I'm listening to… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“being an artist: "And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate , I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As ages passed we the people, were all blinded and misled in their ventures, by the heralds of the past. In the… — Nynke Visser Copy Share Image
Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in… — Carole King Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
![“[there are] two kinds of things the nature of which it would be quite wonderful to grasp by means of a systematic art... the first consists in seeing together things that are scattered about everywhere and collecting them into one kind, so that by defining each thing we can make clear the subject…” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b92/plato-103_art_there-are-two-kinds-of-things-the-nature_227220.jpg)
![“They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words, instead of calling him Gabriel [Ba], I called him Babio. People call him Gá and I call him Bá. So Bá is a nickname.” quote by Gabriel Ba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94a/gabriel-ba-28833_art_they-are-more-like-artistic-names-b-is-a_956071.png)
![“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.” quote by Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d66/siri-hustvedt-860_art_in-effect-painting-is-the-still-memory-o_3044685.jpg)
