“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are good cooks as I'm too, but coming from a culture that was very concerned with food, I… — Keith Sonnier Copy Share Image
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Some artists are able to pull off a very form-fitting, painted-on look that's very modern, but I have actually come around to… — Stuart Immonen Copy Share Image
If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine… — Sean Mackin Copy Share Image
“I'm going out on a limb here and say that I believe my morality should have no bearing on the discussion of… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
“Science seeks to understand complex processes by reducing them to their essential actions and studying the interplay of those actions--and this reductionist… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Even today, people tell me that the slapstick humour in 'Friends' is the most viewed comedy track on television. Siddique knows the… — Vijay Copy Share Image
Im a fuckin workaholic with a passion in my heart treatin rappin as an art which you have to be a part… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished,… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period. There's no way around… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based,… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
“Art is at present the only construction complete unto itself, about which nothing more can be said, it is such richness, vitality,… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Greedo taught me a lot. I don't say that about every artist. Some artists might teach me stuff musically, but Greedo taught… — Kenny Beats Copy Share Image
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
I love the art house, and when I say the art house, I don't just mean little, independent movies but movies that… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
The group is enthusiastic about making art, but it's also a good excuse to get together with friends and to enjoy each… — Jussi Lehtisalo Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, L.A. has always been kind of colonized or marginalized by New York. It still goes on to… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
There has to be solidarity among the artists, songwriters and all the creative forces within that circle in order for the necessary… — Oleta Adams Copy Share Image
“My birthday is coming up. I was born on March 5th, 1982. Humans have come a long way since then—nearly 30 years,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
I was at a time of my life of making choices, I suppose: am I a writer, am I a visual artist?… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I've always been surrounded by music. The arts have been in my life for a long long time. It was just always… — Eskeerdo Copy Share Image
My mother taught me how to make Boston baked beans. People always buy pork and beans, but my mother will make them… — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
“But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Smatrao sam da je jedina ispravna pozicija umetnika, pozicija izdajnika. Umetnik je onaj čiji smeh za pretke i tradiciju porugom se ori.… — Slobodan Tišma Copy Share Image
The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless,… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
