“No, in the Bolitar household, the kitchen was more a gathering place - a Family Room Lite, if you will - than… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full… — Percy Jewett Burrell Copy Share Image
What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you… — Kevin Chamberlin Copy Share Image
If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM,… — Seth Troxler Copy Share Image
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
“Friendship is a combination of art and craft. The craft part is in knowing how to give and how to take. The… — E.L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
“[If] it were possible to watch composing in the same way that one can watch painting, if composers could have _ateliers_ as… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life,… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The only problem I had on The Voice, was wishing that we, as artists, could have had a stronger opinion in our… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Creative power has to filter through our beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and habits. The more negative and constricted our beliefs and patterns are,… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pytheos made a mistake by not observing that the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some… — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
“The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it,… — Wendy K. Williamson Copy Share Image
Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Coaching is the art of creating an environment, through conversation and a way of being, that facilitates the process by which a… — Elena Aguilar Copy Share Image
It's hard sometimes when you're in a regular high school, you just feel like the odd kid out. The great thing about… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time,… — Arman Copy Share Image
The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're… — Baran Odar Copy Share Image
If I wanted to own some Jack Kirby original art unless it was something that Giacoia or Sinnott had inked I was… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
“In Taiwan during the 1960s and mainland China in the 1980s, conceptualism played a role similar to that of Dada, that is,… — Gao Minglu Copy Share Image
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive,… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image