“The book was rife with abstract diagrams that blurred the boundaries between art, mathematics, and pornography. Triangles of stacked numbers, columns of… — Douglas Wynne Copy Share Image
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Every day I have a new idea or new outlook for my music, a new goal for my music and it's because… — Latto Copy Share Image
The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
When movies tend to start to preach to me, I tend to shut them off, whether I agree with the message or… — Nick Damici Copy Share Image
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose… — William-Adolphe Bouguereau Copy Share Image
I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to do something different so much as do something that interested me. I wasn't trying to be avant-garde… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's… — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Arturo Vega: I always thought the ONLY way to really conquer evil is to make love to it. My favourite dream is… — Legs McNeil Copy Share Image
“Apocalypse is a part of the modern Absurd. This is testimony to its vitality, a vitality dependent upon its truth to the… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Jean Cocteau--my artist friend since our early days--let himself be guided throughout his full life by the principle: "I love to love.… — Arno Breker Copy Share Image
Amazingly, my first project at Granta was the Sex issue. Given my own proclivity for the nuances of hedonistic and sexual exploration,… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will not serve that in which I… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“(I also believe that the most meaningful change, where individuals can triumph over both entropy and evolution as it were, comes when… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
Christian love is the only kind of love in which there is no rivalry, no jealousy. There is jealousy among the lovers… — George Matheson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist, even at the age of 15, and people used to laugh at me. It was the… — Duffy Copy Share Image
I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
Because Ivy [Wilkes] is just starting out as an artist, I wanted to focus on [Georgia] O'Keeffe's experiences when she was just… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment,… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
“It was just that i had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some… — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Art is like a kite with an airplane propeller, OK? Artists are like people who have scuba tanks for lungs, OK? And… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
![“Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral…” quote by Frank Barron](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c44/frank-barron-42375_absolutism_above-all-creators-remain-drawn-to-the-a_1821578.jpg)
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