Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Nudity has never seemed to bother Grace Jones. Her art has thrived, in part, on a physical candor that both shocked people… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
“This is not an age favourable to the development of artistic genius; it may be that for a time all forms of… — Elizabeth Jenkins Copy Share Image
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am tired, I want to go home. I want to continue my art work, I want to plant a garden, I… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
I love working with other people, and I love the fact that film is a collaborative industry and form of art. You're… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
See, modern dance forms have a pull because the youngsters can relate to it, but it makes me happy to say that… — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be that artist that is successful as a result of someone else. Not that that's wrong, but I… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
“There were eight simple lessons in plain language anybody could understand, and I studied them just a few hours a night, then… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale,… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
Cinema is a wonderful art form for talking about loneliness. We can experience films together with other people. It can be a… — Joachim Trier Copy Share Image
“After that, he said, his father, who had always been neutral about his art, forbade him from taking classes. Even his mother,… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end.… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
“A fit queen for that nest of roses was the human flower that adorned it, for a year of love and luxury… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Faking depends on a measure of complicity between the perpetrator and the victim, who together conspire to believe what they don’t believe… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts,… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
When I was 5, 'American Bandstand' had a lot of good artists on there, man. That's when I really started falling in… — Scarface Copy Share Image
“It is a natural instinct to grasp what is falling, reach for what is slipping or chase what is running away. ”… — Sarah Voldeng Copy Share Image
I think it's more, at least at the time, a sense of abstraction. My mind doesn't really work in a way where… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Every single song that's released in the world, there are 100 royalty points. The label will take, say, 80 points. The artist,… — Raye Copy Share Image
I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books,… — Tony Kaye Copy Share Image
“Thick skin is not the thing to have if you are an artist of any kind. It’s got to be bulletproof in… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
I love to draw and paint. I did all the illustrations in my books, so I always have my watercolours with me.… — Rachel Khoo Copy Share Image
The late 80s was quite a difficult time for me as an artist because I'd almost become a parody of myself. All… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
One thing I'll say about Hitler that many people don't realize - and I don't mean to besmirch the industry - but… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for… — Allie X Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another. As I mature, I can organize it so that when… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Thievery is a time-honored profession, my girl. Not to be confused with these hooligans who mug people on the street, or bloodthirsty… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“I could only liken it to the strength of a wheat stalk, which when struck by a storm, bends to the ground,… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
“ List of Artists Who Created Fantasy Worlds to Try and Cure Bouts of Sadness 1. Italo Calvino 2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez… — Shane Jones Copy Share Image
Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
