It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘
Brian EnoIn art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie ChaplinThe X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.
Elon MuskReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund BurkeI have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.
David BowieI don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
David BowieI didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
Vivienne WestwoodThere are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.
Angelina JolieArt is the proper task of life.
Friedrich NietzscheA man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert CamusArt never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Oscar WildeMusic is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.
AuroraTrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.
Alexander PopeWhat a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William ShakespeareSongwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.
Dolly PartonThe arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Vivienne WestwoodI don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.
Alice WalkerWhen I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma GandhiWhen you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLife is short, the art long.
HippocratesJustice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor RooseveltThe art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus AureliusAll great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John RuskinI have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John SteinbeckAll art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
David BowieThe highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham LincolnMusic, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Joseph AddisonA masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Virginia WoolfRhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
PlatoWe write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
Maya AngelouIf you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.
Anthony HopkinsMy dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
Dolores HuertaI’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
Karl LagerfeldArt is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
Oscar WildeWe have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘
J. ColeI learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
Steve JobsActors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.
Anthony HopkinsI’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.
David BowieI’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.
Bill GatesPerhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Aldous HuxleyAdmiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand RussellThe art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
John RuskinArt! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Ludwig van BeethovenTo do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
Charles BukowskiDemocracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. MenckenI create stars.
Abby Lee MillerHe who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.
Angelina JolieNo person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
John RuskinTechnique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
Oscar WildeFrank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.
David ByrneI draw from the crowd a lot.
Kobe BryantFind a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.
Maya AngelouMy focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.
Beyonce KnowlesI do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador DaliIf I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.
Jimmy Carter