When you're working with other artists, it's often a mix of your ideas with somebody else's, which can be extremely fruitful. But… — Sophie Copy Share Image
We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The… — Miguel Ferrer Copy Share Image
I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard… — Moby Copy Share Image
Before I was a musician, I drew. The housing projects in Brooklyn weren't much of a canvas, people didn't know that I… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
One of the most important elements of Caio-ness I wanted to keep was that left to right reading, where one form draws… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I never got to see a proper striptease. Not anything even remotely close. I was stupid and went to literary cafés and… — Tor Ulven Copy Share Image
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation… — Patrick Holford Copy Share Image
The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it… — Yagyu Munenori Copy Share Image
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I… — Gloria Stuart Copy Share Image
I think of my life as divided between a lot of different periods. I grew up in the country, but as I… — Reed Krakoff Copy Share Image
“Orpheus chose to be the leader of mankind. Ah, not even Orpheus had attained such a goal, not even his immortal greatness… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Through creativity, we are seamlessly connected and sustained as we pull back the veil, revealing beneath our differences and distinctive characteristics, human… — Brian Bowers Copy Share Image
Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare,… — Thomas Ian Griffith Copy Share Image
The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You cannot own a symphony or a novel in the way you can own a Damien Hirst. As a result there are… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“They were and are children of privilege... the privilege taught, learned, and imbibed, in a "liberal arts education" is the privilege to… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
“...indeed it is very true that, just as the finest air in the world is vulgarized beyond all bearing once the public… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But then as I got older, I got to know all these amazing artists like Alanis Morissette, Stevie Nicks, Debbie Harry, all… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
We tried to make music that had a very diverse collection of genres - jazz, pop, Latin, even the blues. We tried… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
“Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to… — Eric S. Rabkin Copy Share Image
Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
