Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Jean Racine

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

Jill Scott

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

Jill Scott

I like dressing how I like to dress, and I look like a little art statement.

Kirsten Vangsness

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

Larry Wall

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Max Eastman

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Mel Gibson

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Marcel Proust

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Oliver Goldsmith

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Rudolf Arnheim

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

Robert Pinsky

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

Russell Simmons

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.

Siri Hustvedt

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

Sheena Iyengar

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

Seth MacFarlane

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.

Steve Martin

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Sylvester Stallone

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

Talib Kweli

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

Tony Kushner

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays