“He works in profanity the way another artist might work in watercolors, each word carrying various hues and subtleties not available to… — Mark Schweizer Copy Share Image
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Robert Hughes, Time magazines's art critic, told him on the phone that after he saw the planes flying over SoHo he had… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters,… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my… — Allison Tolman Copy Share Image
I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. As… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The common approach for manufacturers to the art of segmentation is to slice and dice a large target market into subgroups of… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
Storyboards are kind of inflexible, once you finish making them you have to stick to them. Since animation takes such a long… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
As artists, we'd all love to not be commercial - to not sell out to the full extent that we are able.… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“Half a dozen epicene young pagans who haven’t even been to Algiers will tell you, first, that your notion is borrowed, and,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Love is an art, Berk. Just like painting or music. Some painters draw mere lines, scratches on the canvas and call them… — T. Afsin Ilgar Copy Share Image
“We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his work "junk", simply because we differ with… — Francis A. Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I don't ever see movies by myself. I always see them with other people because I want to know what works. I… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
“Thus, seeking to produce a typology of forms of the art of government, La Mothe Le Vayer, in a text from the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Long ago I used to mutter (as you probably do), "Very interesting," and cast a desperate glance around for the punch-bowl. This… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, talent isn't worth shit. There are tons of talentless people out there making zillions of dollars. And unfortunately, an equal… — Tiffanie DeBartolo, How To Kill A Rock Star Copy Share Image
I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
The truth is that when writing a TV show or a film you are a part of a team. And though you… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
They say that you never forget your first love and my first love was wrestling. My grandmother taught me wrestling, but it… — Beth Phoenix Copy Share Image
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Humility is a virtue that is enjoined upon us. So far as the artist is concerned, with good reason; indeed, when he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“No man, said the Nolan, can be a lover of the true or the good unless he abhors the multitude; and the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to… — Leo Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits,… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
