It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“The Christian Church has put a spiritual hierarchy on jobs. Ministers and missionaries are on top, then perhaps doctors and nurses come… — Steve Taylor Copy Share Image
I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I just love to draw. It's very intense for me. The day will just go by like the snap of a finger.… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
“There are, broadly speaking, three directly analogous progressions inthe history of art: in Antiquity, from the blockiness of Egyptian art to the… — Klaus Berger Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who works within Cambodia, with Cambodians. I work alongside the artists and society to work from within, so that is… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an… — Alicia Witt Copy Share Image
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Art is original. Marcel Duchamp was an artist when he pioneered Dadaism and installed a urinal in a museum. The second person… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
To achieve something I don't think is a big thing but to maintain and sustain it, is an art. This is something… — Bhuvan Bam Copy Share Image
“It is likely that this very maelstrom of conflicted impulses is what has foiled all previous attempts to come up with a… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . .… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I also want the figurative like a painter who only paints abstract colors but wants to show that he does so because… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons and there they participate… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Because most artists have not told us of their intentions, and beacause those artists ( and patrons or agents) who have stated… — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
If I had to collaborate with anybody on a song, I would pick Kendrick Lamar because he is so dope as an… — Adrian Marcel Copy Share Image
I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really… — Amy Hardie Copy Share Image
“the Inka style was severe, abstract, stripped down to geometric forms—startlingly contemporary, in fact. (According to the Peruvian critic César Paternosto, such… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
I love light in my work but I was never influenced by neon signage in itself, rather its effect on nature and… — Keith Sonnier Copy Share Image
“Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you… — Russell Hornsby Copy Share Image
I'm a doodler. It was my first job as a boy, and I still do it. At night I keep a block… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer… In this sense, the… — Adrian Piper Copy Share Image
I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“The old master oil paintings were usually done in transparent oil colors on top of a black-and-white underpainting, which was often painted… — Paul O. Zelinsky Copy Share Image
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I'm ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as… — Andrea Anders Copy Share Image
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you're dealing with Jerry Garcia or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When HSBC took the painting out of their building, they had to block the road and use a crane to bring the… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising,… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
