Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I notice a lot of younger artists have difficulty telling stories. They might have short stories where they express themselves well, but… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Copy Share Image
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny.… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I've never heard of any one single artist being the subject in an ongoing series of radio programs for decades. Bearing this… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
“The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than… — Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Copy Share Image
“Ninety-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as good as… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“As an artist, if your work doesn't inflame at least part of the audience, then you might as well call it quits… — Alys Arden Copy Share Image
But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a… — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
“Let the Art be brought back only for the good of the world. If it isn the hand of one who would… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I think that's what so exquisite and unique about New York, it's a city that allows you to hone your craft as… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, you don't get artist development anymore. Record companies have become a huge corporate thing. It used to be you'd meet someone… — David Vanian Copy Share Image
Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that.… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the… — Millie Bobby Brown Copy Share Image
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The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
I've got a brother who works for the Red Cross, another brother is working with the homeless in France, some who work… — Tom Bateman Copy Share Image
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling… — Virginia Lee Copy Share Image
Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal… — Leopold Auer Copy Share Image
That would be something I would stress the most to any artist - is, number one, don't ever allow, you know, success… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW,… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that an artist could be at the center of healing our problems because, every day, that's… — David Lang Copy Share Image
To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but… — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and… — Mary Beth McKenzie Copy Share Image
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
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