In a typical martial arts film, you have a hero shot: a close-up tight angle of the hero looking past the camera,… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
As authors, most - most authors , our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I notice a lot of younger artists have difficulty telling stories. They might have short stories where they express themselves well, but… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny.… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I've never heard of any one single artist being the subject in an ongoing series of radio programs for decades. Bearing this… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the… — John Newton Copy Share Image
For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
“Americans have perfected the questionable art of what Suzann Mettler, a professor at Cornell University calls "the submerged state." -- making government… — Anu Partanen Copy Share Image
An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of… — Peter London Copy Share Image
Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art… — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you… — Brother Ali Copy Share Image
My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to… — Ana Mendieta Copy Share Image
Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some… — Brian Wildsmith Copy Share Image
“I'm an empty page, I'm an open book, write Your story on my heart, come on and make Your mark Author of… — Francesca Battistelli Copy Share Image
Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
I think [“Shake It Off”] is awesome! It sticks in your head. I heard it one time and I was, like, singing… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
“secondary ELA (English Language Arts) teachers are keenly aware of what “close reading” and the ratio of what the fiction to non-fiction… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
How content-driven cinema worked so well... Yeah, the shift is definitely happening... It is such a good change, and it is the… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
“Europeans often laugh about how prudish Americans are, when it comes to sex. In Europe, sexuality is a normal part of life.… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
The fashion business got boring. I was working with big companies, but the minute it became too formulaic, I got bored with… — Maria Cornejo Copy Share Image
If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
As a working artist, I became increasingly aware of the patterns we see in the street and in America, becoming globalized in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find… — Norman Corwin Copy Share Image
Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life;… — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
![“I think [“Shake It Off”] is awesome! It sticks in your head. I heard it one time and I was, like, singing it all day long! Of course she's gonna go and do a pop record if she wants to. She's an amazing writer so if she comes back tomorrow and says 'I'm gonna make a country record now', we'll…” quote by Miranda Lambert](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1d2/miranda-lambert-2170_art_i-think-shake-it-off-is-awesome-it-stick_1648890.jpg)
![“Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.” quote by John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/589/john-lennon-322_art_yoko-ono-was-well-into-liberation-before_1205808.jpg)
