When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone,… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that… — Gyorgy Kepes Copy Share Image
Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
“A month passed in silence and then came an email asking if Qayennat would care to further amend, fortify or prune various… — Anjum Hasan Copy Share Image
“If one destroyed in museums and libraries, if one hurled down on the flagstones before the churches all the works and all… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
You always want to try and evolve an art form. It's not a very humble ambition; it reeks of arrogance. If you… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion picture art was (and is) that it is too much an… — Garson Kanin Copy Share Image
Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so –… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
“The three creative prototypes, the scientist, the artist, and the saint, know instinctively, without the help of any mere philosopher, that each… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures." "That's an oversimplification of the issue." "The… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Look at the list of liberals who are active in politics, if not running. Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, Warren Beatty, Springsteen, Spielberg...… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Time has changed and artists release more songs in a short span of time and that's where the auto-tune steps-in. One doesn't… — Badshah Copy Share Image
Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“What artist could recreate Sidonie's sensuous beauty? No mere dauber could capture the feminine musk on the air. Or depict the soft,… — Anna Campbell Copy Share Image
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“A need for precision and perfection has always been an enemy of art, which is about coloring outside the lines. It is… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
“Years later, as a professor, Martin would try to find the words to articulate the power of togetherness in a world where… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
When learning boxing and martial arts, there wasn't any fakery in my training. When teaching you the basics of fighting, even though… — Tom Payne Copy Share Image
I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
“I'm used to the security of living behind my online profiles and the clip art advertisdements I create to define me. I… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more… — Marcella Hazan Copy Share Image
So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think,… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
There's just so many great artists out there, but I think growing up, J. Cole has been the guy that I've always… — C. J. McCollum Copy Share Image
Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them… — George Jones Copy Share Image
“ART VS. COMMERCE he artist stood back to view the geometric precision of his latest creation. "Beautiful," he murmured, "but will it… — Steve Moss Copy Share Image
One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own… — John Cage Copy Share Image