Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. "

Related Quotes:

" The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. "

" I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it. "

Laurie Anderson

" The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn. "

" To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. "

Charles Baudelaire

" What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. "

" Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. "

" Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. "

Lionel Trilling

" I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers. "

" Art is the daughter of freedom. "

Friedrich Schiller

" Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. "

Edward Steichen

" Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. "

" Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art. "

Alfred Stieglitz

" Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. "

" The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture. "

Bozoma Saint John

" Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. "

" The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. "

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

" To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. "

Alexander Calder

" A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. "

" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "

" Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. "

" Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. "

Jackson Pollock

" Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding. "

" You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. "

John Singer Sargent

" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "

" Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. "

Georges Carpentier

" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "

" Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. "

" Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. "