A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Spend at least 20-30% of your time marketing. You have to pay for this either way. Either you pay a gallery to… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
It is a great art to succeed in having your soul sanctified. A person can become a saint anywhere. He can become… — Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia Copy Share Image
Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
“Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms… — Deb Margolis Copy Share Image
I think that the first responsibility of an artist is to follow truth, and the innate original forces and energies that are… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
One of the great arts in living is to learn the art of accurately appraising values. Everything that we think, that we… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them,… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads… — Vincent Van Gogh 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
I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson,… — Zac Posen 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
Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“The political independence of a nation must not be confused with any intellectual isolation. The spiritual freedom, indeed, your own generous lives… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson did something that no one else in history has managed - he connected with people on every level imaginable, all… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
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