Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
The magazine business is dying. It's a hard time for publishing. It does seem that everyone is much more opinionated now. I… — Barry Blitt Copy Share Image
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have a fairly unwieldy set of concerns that go into determining what I do in the paintings, such as the history… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
“How do I describe him now? Where do I start? How do I distill the first impression created in those few distance… — Dorit Rabinyan Copy Share Image
There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“If we are as free as we like to believe, then it makes sense that we are free to choose who we… — Cristian Mihai Copy Share Image
“A young house painter who fails miserably in his choice of profession is capable, also for a period of twenty years, of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
“One company that manufactured resins used in exterior paints discovered this firsthand. By researching the needs of commercial painting contractors—a key customer… — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings.… — Charley Harper Copy Share Image
I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The fisherman-painter has the best of the bargain as far as the weather goes, for the weather that is too bright for… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Kolchak nodded, 'Right, because that would make sense." He took off his hat and crumpled it against his hip. 'When I lived… — Jason Henderson Copy Share Image
I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves,… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan Copy Share Image
With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
“Morbid anatomy is essential to training and research, but leads many doctors into thinking that life is an agitation in something essentially… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — Erich Fromm 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
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold… — Tony Tasset Copy Share Image
“Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
People see so many things in the paintings. Although I never think of them, it charms me a little bit that people… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
