Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Degas difficulteasypaint Change image and share on social
Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that. Esperanza Spalding artbackcontact Change image and share on social
Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country. E. F. Benson artbraceletcharacter share on social
The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded. Elliot Ackerman artbookcreate share on social
Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going to count, but the fact of having given life to feelings, of having created characters and made a living work of art. Eugene Ionesco artcenturycharacter share on social
The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood. Elizabeth Holmes 1960sarmart share on social
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. Edward R. Murrow artconversationlose Change image and share on social
I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things. Ezra Miller artdiemake Change image and share on social
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. Eugene Ionesco adventureartmind Change image and share on social
Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society. Eugene Ionesco artconstituteculture share on social