I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at… — Duff Goldman Copy Share Image
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, therevolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art..… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one… — Kenneth Coutts-Smith Copy Share Image
Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another,… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
As a child I'd sit at dinner parties with artists, authors and musicians, some of the best people in their fields. I… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“Turning off or tuning out people was my highly developed art. The custom of letting obedient children be seen but not heard… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
“We go eastward to realize history, and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see.… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
People like Sam Smith and Adele, they're album artists but for me, where I go around the world and sounds are changing… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
“Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. 'That's some… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Our life is our masterpiece, it's up to us on how we paint our story. It's up to us how we see… — Nathaniel E. Quimada Copy Share Image
I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at… — Amy Childs Copy Share Image
It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
I think what's beautiful when you're looking at artists like Macklemore and you're looking at artists like Ayron Jones, they're proud of… — Sir Mix-a-Lot Copy Share Image
The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
There are a lot of classic Goapele tracks that are obviously me. And I'm also just trying to keep evolving and grow… — Goapele Copy Share Image
When you're writing a 25-minute episode that can be anything, sometimes you just start with a character, and you let them walk… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
“Color is something that cannot be defined by era, style or artistic trends. Thus it always has the power to speak in… — JOH & Company Copy Share Image
Hollywood seduces a person who's used to making theater, art, and having success on their own terms and then tries to squish… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“philosophers have noted that people who habitually deceive finally fall for their own deceptions. This is the well-known phenomenon that confidence artists… — Joseph Agassi Copy Share Image
To any situation the reaction may be different. That's why it's useless - in a way - to memorize patterns, because the… — Vladimir Vasiliev Copy Share Image
Read books that expand you, that are bright. See films, plays, art forms that elevate your consciousness, that bring you into a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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