I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
“Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed… — Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto Copy Share Image
“And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's what everyone should do with their lives: stand up for what they believe in or try to do some good in… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“In an artistic sense, cool came to refer to someone with a signature artistic style so integral as to exude an authentic… — Joel Dinerstein Copy Share Image
How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
Art shouldn't be something that you go quietly into an art gallery and dip your forelock and say 'I have to be… — Ken Done Copy Share Image
Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of… — Roman Genn Copy Share Image
Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
You can see girls getting too excited and they start crying or worse. In a lot of these countries they don't get… — Niall Horan Copy Share Image
“There are historical moments when an alignment of forces causes a shift in human outlook. It happened to art and philosophy and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living… — William Webb Copy Share Image
“An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“The truth about any artist, however terrible, is better than the silence… I know many writers fight fanatically to keep their published… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction.… — Donna Levin Copy Share Image
My family has artists, but they are all working artists. They are not movie stars. They don't get paid. I really respect… — Emory Cohen Copy Share Image
Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for artists to get their flowers. As artists, sometimes we do be in a dark space, and… — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
“Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“It would have been possible to back out of his engagements by assuming the license of the free artistic spirit, but he… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and… — Alexandra York Copy Share Image
All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
My mom was a freethinking artist - she was wild and would do anything to get a laugh from me. She'd go… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see… — Bobbi Brown Copy Share Image
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Food is art, I believe. If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As… — Pierre Coupey Copy Share Image
