When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think we need great artists making great work - women, men, whoever. I think what's great about TV now is there… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I… — Tom Seaver Copy Share Image
I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
I don't care about being remembered. I'm not a wonderful writer or anything. This should be reserved for people who really did… — Jesus Franco Copy Share Image
'Housefull' is made with the express purpose of being an entertaining, time-pass film. No one is supposed to search for great art… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music. — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible… — One9 Copy Share Image
In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image