I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me.… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
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Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point.… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
“Life is like an immersive art experience. We live in the art that we create, that is painted by our words and… — Natalia Beshqoy Copy Share Image
When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
On 'Black Lightning' I have a stunt double who's a lot younger than me. The fighting style on the show is heavily… — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Nothing rose to plug the gap, to address what some called “ultimate concerns,” unless you count the arts, the arts that lacked… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I've written one book-length piece of journalism. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? That book had an impact. Eight… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
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In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little kid. I knew that I had to do something… — Ranveer Singh Copy Share Image
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things.… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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“… as to the better centuries that are coming, the artist was surely right. His error lay, in supposing that his age,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged… — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
All of depiction is fiction, it's only a question of degree. When we think of images, such as the signing of the… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
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When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously)… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Online is such an important platform... it's all one giant melting pot of talents. The times are changing. It's just art now.… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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