“We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes. — Jean Tinguely Copy Share Image
I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time. — Jessalyn Gilsig Copy Share Image
It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon… Spooning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or… — Nargis Fakhri Copy Share Image
I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand… — John Hench Copy Share Image
When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts.… — Lisa Papademetriou Copy Share Image
A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have a Master's Degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
“Cizek came to Vienna [from Leitmeritz, a small town in Bohemia, then Austrian] when he was twenty [in 1885], and entered the… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
My greatest passion has always been connecting with creative people, appreciating the artistic and discovering fresh perspectives on the world. I came… — Bruce Livingstone Copy Share Image
“You perceive," he said, "that you have made continual progress. Cain did his murder with a club; the Hebrews did their murders… — Mark Twain 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
“Some writers, even some poets, become famous public figures, but writers as such have no social status, in the way that doctors… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“are much more beautiful in body than women. It is only a man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I hope your fine arts degree taught you the fine art of being unemployable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter. — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world. — Jack London Copy Share Image