Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The difference between email being identified as an art or a science is truly an individual decision based on the impact that… — Jeanniey Mullen Copy Share Image
Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
If you want to make a difference with art, which is a motive I perceive as questionable, then the single most stupid… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier… — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one’s life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick… I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
In the West, the art of rock climbing is growing because it has to do with less risk, good muscles. But the… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
Back in the day, I used to get really upset when people used to say that I didn't really make all my… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
So yeah, how do I think of my environment and what happens with sound art? I love to play with the idea… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
“If you are born of the artist tribe it is a waste of time to try and function as a priest. You… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is looking at… — James T. Hubbell Copy Share Image
As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“Women understand that there are two distinct economies: There is physical attraction, and then there is the “ideal.” When a woman looks… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I don't really listen to my old stuff, but on occasion, I would either hear a track on the radio or a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
As we look at Hollywood and the controversy around the Oscars, it goes back to the voting block and the lack of… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at… — Mahmoud Reda Copy Share Image
Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next… — Seth Copy Share Image
coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw… — David Chase Copy Share Image
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The basket would never make her famous or end up in a museum. The best part of it was the making of… — Ellen Airgood Copy Share Image