Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star. — Sarah Carter Copy Share Image
“The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.” — Antonin Carême Copy Share Image
The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I had a Masters of Fine Arts, but so did thousands of other graduates every year, and we were all competing for… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
“The power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It's a combination of nature and nurture. Sometimes it's a part of teen rebellion, either to adopt or to refuse to adopt… — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata,… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was… — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
“Like a Zen master, she reduced to the essences: I do not need to walk around the Museum of Fine Arts; I… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
“What is the place of art in the Christian life? Is art- especially the fine arts- simply a way to bring worldliness… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich… — Santiago Martinez Delgado Copy Share Image