Sometimes we do derive some entertainment when we 'appreciate' something, and sometime we feel something when we're moved. So a lot of… — Randy Pitchford Copy Share Image
“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I'm a natural born fighter, so this is what I do, and it's normal. It's natural. It's what I've always done as… — Anderson Silva Copy Share Image
I start by thinking I'm going to make use of all possibilities without troubling any longer about problems when something starts to… — Jan Dibbets Copy Share Image
“I’m not Jet so I can’t write you a song that makes you understand how important you are to me. I’m not… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely.… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Our art will probably be accused of tormented and decadent cerebralism. But we shall merely answer that we are, on the contrary,… — Umberto Boccioni (Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto Copy Share Image
A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I tell young actresses today who are looking to get into films, "First of all, you are marginalized by the color of… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive,… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its… — John A. Hiigli Copy Share Image
You can't expect somebody to speak out on a certain subject. If they want to say something about it, then say something… — Denzel Curry Copy Share Image
After a couple of years at Vertigo, I realized that if I was going to be a professional artist, I'd have to… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
the arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating… — Biloine W. Young Copy Share Image
“Yet it is hard to see why artistic creation would be safe from the algorithms. Why are we so confident that computers… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art,… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
There are issues that are being questioned that are fundamentally upsetting to me, deeply: immigration, funding for the arts, Planned Parenthood, and… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
“After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Q: Do you feel concerned that after all this work, people won't treat [Starship Titanic] with the gravity of, say, a movie… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I enjoy creating all types of music and I take inspiration from everything around me. Its not about trends or what’s fashionably… — Miguel Migs Copy Share Image
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I truly believe there needs to be more programs for artists and musicians to teach basic financial literacy and planning. Coming from… — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
“Why didn't you become a sorcerer, Geralt? Weren't you ever attracted by the Art? Be honest.' 'I will. I was.' 'Why, then,… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect… — Jonathan McReynolds Copy Share Image
My dad has always just had a lot of faith in me as an artist and as a person, and he doesn't… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
“It is under Ashoka’s aegis that Indian civilisation, in the sense of a shared culture embracing everything from administration to art and… — Charles Allen Copy Share Image
My advice to aspiring actors and writers is that your career's success is totally your responsibility. You need to make it happen.… — Christian Keiber Copy Share Image
When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I think that there are artists of different genres whose calling is to use their art to hope to affect and better… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“I recognized the great monument from the illustration in the copy of /The Jungle Book/ that my mother kept in the top… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go… — Ronald Biggs Copy Share Image
“Everybody knows the centres of neutralisation, where it is required that no emotion stands out, where each one has to contain himself,… — Tiqqun Copy Share Image