Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
“The political independence of a nation must not be confused with any intellectual isolation. The spiritual freedom, indeed, your own generous lives… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
“You must first reach a certain level in your own art before studying other arts. Too much looking around is not good… — Dan Johns Copy Share Image
The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the… — Catherine Ingram Copy Share Image
I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on… — Ruth Negga Copy Share Image
Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
There is a discrepancy of somebody going to an art dealer and promising what they'll make for the next three years. And… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Georges St. Pierre has the best takedowns and dominant wrestling ability, and he's a great athlete, but he's shown he can be… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
I am extremely happy. It's just an amazing feeling to be in this space at this stage of my life after all… — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I've got a twin sister who's an artist and growing up I was always "the loud one." She's not actually quiet at… — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Expression is never considered a given, and it is in fact maybe not what's most interesting about making art. Making art, since… — Kurt Ralske Copy Share Image
The mystery of the artist is something that the 70's made, but it's not the same these days, and I don't know...… — Ryan Follese Copy Share Image
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
“There is beauty in every incident of life; the true and the false, the wise and the foolish, are all one in… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“Artists shouldn't wait until they are told what their art should be, they shouldn't follow trends or allow other people to influence… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I think, as an artist I done conquered every way that you can go, as far as with creativeness, and directions and… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that,… — Laura Osnes Copy Share Image
If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Usually I start with a concept, which I then sketch out so that I can get a feel for the character. The… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I want to be really special, I want to be really good. It's not enough to be famous for me. Famous is… — Cher Copy Share Image
When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end -… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
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