I love Marcel Proust, but I leave him to his nostalgia. I don't approach art the way most people do. I don't… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
Miley is always on, she’s always funny, she’s always writing songs, she’s always making music. The parallel of the film is like… — Billy Ray Cyrus Copy Share Image
Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If something was bugging you, you talk about it. But that's the cool thing: we [My Chemical Romance] don't bug each other.… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
If you have the opportunity to have the best of the artist, then if you overpay, it doesn't matter. Eventually, the market… — Norman Braman Copy Share Image
We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal… — Peter London Copy Share Image
I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
I've been arrested a few times, but I've never been in real trouble. Because what I do is art and even if… — Invader Copy Share Image
He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
People think, "Wow, people in America have so much money, they're sending hundreds of pencils to this guy." I don't think those… — David Rees Copy Share Image
When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, "I've… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I just believe in collaboration. I mean, I've written songs on my own, you know, but I think if the artist has… — Max Martin Copy Share Image
Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle… — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, it's great to have a knowledge of the business and be educated about that, but you've got to… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Zen is the enemy of analysis, the friend of intuition. The Zen artist understands the ends of his art intuitively, and the… — Tom Hoover Copy Share Image
The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Every artist wants to feel like they're still valid in a contemporary way. But you can't be so arrogant not to think… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
I love it. I LOVE it! I love acting, being paid to be creative. I've always been really passionate about the arts.… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night’s body be called thieves of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
You're not going to have any pension or health care from those $60 nights at you name the club. But I think… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to country music. I got into traditional stuff later, but I listened to the commercial stuff of the… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I… — Ray Park Copy Share Image
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Art was about creation. That was its soul, its essence. Creation and order. You took something disorganized—a splash of ink, an empty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“These rules, the sign language and grammar of the Game, constitute a kind of highly developed secret language drawing upon several sciences… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun… — Flume Copy Share Image
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image