“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
My area of research is something that in all fairness has no practical usability whatsoever and the thing is I'm often asked… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
For the kid in me that had a rockier edge and wanted to be Stevie Nicks, it's been fulfilling that I've met… — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera.… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I always like to talk about how important space is. Art is in the spaces. Anybody can sing a note; it takes… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by… — Billy Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I wish to try my hand at a novel," he said. "Just scribbling, I assure you, but it strikes me as such… — Kyle Muntz Copy Share Image
Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in… — John Milton Copy Share Image
My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video… — Adria Petty Copy Share Image
The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now… — Kelis Copy Share Image
Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor… — Horace Copy Share Image
The aim and end of the artist is not truth exactly, much less fact; it is effect... There is no doubt he… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Once all the blocks were on the quad, Rowena grew obsessed with arranging them perfectly. I didn’t care at this point and… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
A comic is a way of literally experiencing someone else's vision with a purity that I don't think any other medium offers;… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the… — Laura Pausini Copy Share Image
Politics is real. It has an impact on people's lives. It's harder to quantify the impact art has. Personally, I oscillate between… — Killian Scott Copy Share Image
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts. I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's… — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography… — Angela Cartwright Copy Share Image
So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." In short,… — William Missouri Downs Copy Share Image
My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I'm so used to artists saying to me, "Listen, I'm going to have five pages done next week," and then three weeks… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Con artists are using Obamacare confusion to sign people up for fake health insurance. The scammers lure victims with false promises like,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
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