I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects.… — Kelly Hogan Copy Share Image
For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact… — James Krenov Copy Share Image
Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum… — Lamar Boschman Copy Share Image
Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.”… — Teresita Fernandez Copy Share Image
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of… — Piet Zwart Copy Share Image
Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
That said, we don't approach these improvements as only a surface aesthetic. The producers and we think that these men are helped… — Kyan Douglas Copy Share Image
There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
All movements begin and end, and all have been inspired by others that have come before them. They evolve and then deconstruct… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I think that most successful artists - not always, but a lot of them, in any field - have business savvy as… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
On some kind of unspoken, deep, deep level, I think we [with Ryan Murphy] have an aesthetic that we both understand or… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
My aesthetic is derived from my point of view which is one of optimism and hope. The camera became a conduit for… — Mike Ruiz Copy Share Image
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Black metal - especially from the '90s - contains a certain production aesthetic that keys you into the emotive content. You feel… — Jorge Elbrecht Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
“But functional was not an aesthetic criterion that Flashjack, as a faery, had terribly high on his list of priorities; it was… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
We asked a lot of questions and we watched everyone who was working in the studio. And we had an opportunity to… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image