Walt Whitman Quotes
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
Vince Vaughn
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My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
Kate Smith
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
Imre Kertesz
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Ralph Bakshi
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
Harold Pinter
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
Yoko Ono
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West
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I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.
D. J. Cotrona
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Rachel Kushner
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
Garrett Hedlund
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I'm just achieving goals left, right and centre, and I just feel incredibly lucky because I never thought it would happen.
James Arthur
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I become a chameleon for wherever I am.
Bob Saget
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Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great.
Deborah Tannen
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I have never believed that the historian should seek to perpetuate the misapprehensions of the past, and it is true that we understand Beethoven today better than his contemporaries did, better, above all, than the generation that immediately followed him, including his own most important pupil, Karl Czerny.
Charles Rosen
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
