Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve… — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint,… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
I never understood the low art/high art distinction. I think there's real currency in pop culture. We read trashy magazines as much… — Kele Okereke Copy Share Image
“To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this… — Bram van Velde Copy Share Image
All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to… — Jordan Ladd Copy Share Image
No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make… — David Guetta Copy Share Image
I'm not really well educated - other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they… — Trina Robbins Copy Share Image
In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the… — Jacques Bertin Copy Share Image
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Many other artists who sing about hope think that it is something every single person carries within himself. I'm not so sure… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
In the 70s I started doing my Big Night Out on stage when I was at art school. A friend of mine… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
Most people think that I'm so technical that I don't have a feel aspect or a rhythm aspect of it, but that's… — Bryson DeChambeau Copy Share Image
I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
I don't aestheticize anything. I don't even use lights. The working girls do one thing all day: They make themselves pretty. That's… — Michael Glawogger Copy Share Image
The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went… — Arik Roper Copy Share Image
Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I do feel that the world is entering into a period of the incredible period of reflection and introspection. A lot of… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
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