What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will always be good enough in the opinion of economists.What is the use of...

Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

Sometimes paper is only paper,” my mothers says. “Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don’t be afraid to remember that.”I know what she means. Writing, painting, singing–it cannot stop everything. Cannot...

In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God’s art.

All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful… If you emphasize the truth-telling at...

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Wicca offered real, not pretended, means for the individual to express the art, beauty, and reality of ritual, including magic, in the here and now. –Paul Turnbull

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must...

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend

He was interested in politics, reading, good food and art. He was very energetic. He never stopped.

They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that’s how he started out, writing fiction. Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface. Yes, the...

Let’s always try to paint the truth … our art must be made to mean something.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.––Manet to Monet, on Renoir—

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.

Seaside Studies,” will perceive that science excites poetry rather than extinguishes it. And whoever will contemplate the life of Goethe will see that the poet and the man of science can co-exist in equal activity....

Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren’t going to earn a living? I know the answer…I worried that the paint was so thickly...

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people

Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages.

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level of any ideological trash.

Journalism is not a precise science, it’s a crude art

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

Rose’s work of art took her all day, including two playtimes, story time, and most of lunch.At the end of school it was stolen from her by the wicked teacher who had pretended to be...

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the...

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire...

The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though–and what an odd way to achieve success. I’m an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value...

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may...

[Raphael’s] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas...

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

Art is the proper task of life.

…but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most...

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

The stratagems by which briefly youameliorated, even seeminglyuntwisted what still twists within you —you loved their taste and lay thereon your sidenursing like a puppy.

If I could go back in time, I’d love to whisper sweet nothings in Van Gogh’s ear, but not while it was attached to his head.

I drew a portrait of an invisible man on a nice canvas, because that’s all you see. Oh, and I used a nice frame. I think that’s important. I believe the best art uses the...

Sales is the art of canvasing a field, framing a problem, and painting a solution. But you can’t go Van Gogh on a deal. You’ve got to use both your ears.

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.

Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.