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" I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. "
Rita Ora
Pretty
Shoes
Song
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" I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. "
Andrea Bocelli
Good
Direction
Music
" My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it. "
Fernando Botero
Color
Good
Painting
" Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. "
Pablo Picasso
Start
Woman
Love
" 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. "
Aristotle
Children
Art
Life
" Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
C. S. Lewis
Like
Value
Friendship
" I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. "
Maya Angelou
Poetry
Art
Writing
" A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. "
Gertrude Stein
" Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. "
Lionel Trilling
Artists
Steal
Art
" When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring. "
Richard Phillips
Art
Always
Think
" I am not strong on perfection. "
Jasper Johns
Art
Am
Strong
" You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy. "
Marina Abramovic
You
Work
Looking
" I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. "
Richard Avedon
I Think
Think
Art
" What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. "
Georges Bizet
Art
Beautiful
Beautiful Art
" I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. "
William Morris
Art
Education
Few
" Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. "
Catie Curtis
Art
Creative
Dance
" My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. "
Tadao Ando
Hand
Art
Thinking
" My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. "
Yayoi Kusama
Me
Art
I Can
" The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. "
Marcus Aurelius
Dancing
Art
Wrestling
" What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. "
Lionel Trilling
Artist
Marks
Pain
" I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Service
Wish
Art
" I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy. "
Jello Biafra
Body
Brain
Deep
" When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. "
Agnes Martin
Think
Eye
Mind
" I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art. "
Rita Ora
Line
Amazing
Art
" All art is but imitation of nature. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nature
Imitation
Art
" I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. "
Madonna Ciccone
Experiment
Art
My Own
" It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter. "
Alfred Eisenstaedt
People
Art
Click
" I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person. "
Alanis Morissette
Profile
Try
Person
" No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity. "
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Man
Art
Strength
" Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. "
Stephen Sondheim
Art
Out
Order
" Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you. "
Yoko Ono
Great
Art
Matter