The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
I realize how much my life lines up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. My sound comes from church, but… — BJ the Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I'd recommend… — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go… — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“Like James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Woolf ’s first novel is a self-conscious meditation on… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
The Voice of Heaven is a still small voice. The voice of peace in the home is a quiet voice. There is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art.… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
If I were not a black artist but I was still singing, playing guitar, and singing ballads that are spiritual and cerebral,… — India Arie Copy Share Image
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I've been told throughout my career that I have good instincts, and the idea of discovery and development in terms of a… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
“There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing… — Daya Copy Share Image
I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There's this food that's evolved over thousands of years and people have made their own kind of thing, but it's not art-food,… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products.… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“Shadow! or Spirit! Whatever thou art, Which still doth inherit The whole or a part Of the form of thy birth, Of… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why?… — John Irving Copy Share Image
For the young generation, when they see that there is a film director from Cambodia to go on to be nominated, for… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
“Happy people don’t create anything, their world is one without art and music and skyscrapers, without discoveries and innovations. All leaders, all… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“I think there's a story inside every one of us and we all have different talents that allow us to tell our… — Susan Rushmore Copy Share Image
Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
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