No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody! — Hiromi 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
I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that… — Daniel H. Pink 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
Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music… — Pete Seeger 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 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
The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts. — Robert Frost 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
The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It… — Gerard van der Leeuw Copy Share Image
The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to… — Richard Misrach 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
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston 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
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image