I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself,… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities,… — Stephen Furst 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 was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it… — Marissa Nadler Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like… — Ben Schnetzer Copy Share Image
To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can… — Horace Kephart Copy Share Image
My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas.… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts. — Roberta Flack Copy Share Image
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher,… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Any specialist will tell you they want to be known as automatic. And the same could be said for a performer in… — Justin Tucker Copy Share Image
Conversing with children is a fine art… An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to… — Andy Clark Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The Urban Simulation Team at UCLA has created a truly incredible online simulation of the 1893 Columbian Exposition that made me feel… — Rysa Walker Copy Share Image
The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I think of my life as divided between a lot of different periods. I grew up in the country, but as I… — Reed Krakoff Copy Share Image
If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
The song "This Is Not Surreal," was inspired by a painter I love, Frida Kahlo. She really did suffer for her art.… — Lindi Ortega Copy Share Image
I have two last pieces of advice. First, being pre-approved for a credit card does not mean you have to apply for… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
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