Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“It takes me living an intentional, mindful, and quiet life to hear or see what’s here. Great art doesn’t necessarily create something… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
“Art is painful, Layla. It’s potentially dangerous. Explosive. It takes everything from you, sometimes more than you can afford. It’s a beast,… — Saffron A. Kent Copy Share Image
The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I think, in art, it is as noble a thing as to to try to make people happy, to help them escape,… — Lucy Foley Copy Share Image
Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true… — Haley Reinhart Copy Share Image
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it… — George L. Carlson Copy Share Image
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I… — Craig McCracken Copy Share Image
A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Even when the light at the end does seem faint. You are the creator with the canvas and the paint. It's never… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all… — George Maciunas Copy Share Image
Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
For me, I don't really feel like I have any particular main influences or artists that I pull from; it's more of… — Tei Shi Copy Share Image
“It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two… — Nicholas Serota Copy Share Image
“The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing for me is a challenge. I'm not happy, creatively, unless I'm faced with a challenge. So,… — Ksenia Solo Copy Share Image
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of Bleach, as well as other Manga titles. And I am certainly sorry if anyone was offended… — Nick Simmons Copy Share Image
I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They… — Davy Jones Copy Share Image
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music -… — Tony Conrad Copy Share Image
After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined.… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You want to be taken seriously as an artist and not just known as 'that girl wrestler who sings.' So you want… — Mickie James Copy Share Image
“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually… — Alex Raymond Copy Share Image
If there is a woman filmmaker or a woman artist, the issue of gender is floating very close to their work... It… — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
Most artists say that they want to make the ultimate statement. I certainly do, but I don't mind people seeing all of… — Van Hunt Copy Share Image
