An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Yes, but more than being a designer, I'm more of a stylist, because I don't sew and I don't sketch, but I'm… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“As we grow and mature and become self--conscious, we are taught that appearances—-who we are on the outside—-aren’t nearly as important as… — Amy Ellis Nutt Copy Share Image
Maternity has come a really long way from when my mother or my friends' mothers were shopping, but it's still very limited… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The information is there, you may not perceive it, but it does affect the lower orders. There are places where it just… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I really love animation as a storytelling medium, whether it's traditional, cel animation, or CG, or stop motion, which is more our… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I was basically 18 when I got offered to join Mister Valentine band and go on tour and leave high school. I… — Brian Warren Copy Share Image
A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets… — David Milne Copy Share Image
I enjoy a good meal as much as anyone, but I get so confused by nutritional, budgetary, ecological, ethical, aesthetic, and time-management… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when,… — John Maus Copy Share Image
The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to choose an object without it impressing me: that is to… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind… — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for… — Hannah Copy Share Image
When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But… — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Even so, the major feeling and thought that I'd like them to keep in mind is the aesthetic ability of such a… — Martine Epoque Copy Share Image
The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There… — Al Barkow Copy Share Image