What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I think some people see those three numbers 9/ 11 and they walk away. That might be changing now. People are more… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
I remember being a 12 year old art kid and feeling like there was no exciting art movement happening, especially for somebody… — Chet Zar Copy Share Image
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood… — Nadia Gamel Copy Share Image
The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography. — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet. — Olivier Messiaen Copy Share Image
Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we… — Nicolas Godin Copy Share Image
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Look, sometimes it’s OK with girls like this, they wanna have fun, and sometimes it’s not because they've got a broken wing… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
