Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things.… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There was a time in my career when I felt like I wasn't being true to myself. I was being moulded into… — Madison Beer Copy Share Image
When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out… — Norbert Bisky Copy Share Image
“Nothing rose to plug the gap, to address what some called “ultimate concerns,” unless you count the arts, the arts that lacked… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each… — Agnes Gund Copy Share Image
I think for the open-minded, I'm a lot like Luciano Pavarotti... But I don't know the technique. I'm learning. I think Pavarotti… — Amaury Vassili Copy Share Image
When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
“Life is like an immersive art experience. We live in the art that we create, that is painted by our words and… — Natalia Beshqoy Copy Share Image
Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point.… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me.… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community,… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention… — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If I was stuck on an island with one artist's discography, it'd probably be Jay-Z's. It would keep me entertained and it… — Tristan Thompson Copy Share Image
A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras,… — Dennis Stock Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to work with a make-up artist, Joel Harlow, who you can throw anything at. I said, "Joel, I… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I'm trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
You could be the sexiest woman in the world, and if you can't sing, if you're not an artist and you can't… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
When I started out, the idea of wearing interesting clothes seemed to contradict the idea of being a serious artist. The first… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
I'm not really an art collector - I'm more of a person who picks up things. I have pieces by people like… — Hiroshi Fujiwara Copy Share Image
The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception.… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“You think that I am naive, but it is you who are naive. You have no idea what is happening inside of… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion that there are artists and non-artists. I think that this is the way it always was and… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
