Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind… — Lacey Schwimmer Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
I always drew. I was, you know, the school artist. I was the person who made the posters for the prom. That's… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
“Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you're dealing with writers and artists” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world. — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think people in the gay and straight worlds can get a sense of what it means to be an artist. — Jill Eikenberry Copy Share Image
It is of no consequence whether a man of genius have learned either art or science before twenty-five: all that is necessary,… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I came at a time where male artists where dominating, so I had to do something quick to get people's attention. I… — Lady Saw Copy Share Image
Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
It's interesting that female artists are underrepresented in exhibitions. That may be down to the fact that the people in power in… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
To be honest, I'm selfish as an artist. I'm doing what I want to do and what I want to hear. — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun. — Jet Li Copy Share Image
I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a… — Berenice Bejo Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Sometimes artists can have the same sound, but they can give you a show that makes you see it in a completely… — Mr. Carmack Copy Share Image
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Art and war are opposites, so our goal as an artist is to build and create, not destroy. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
“Literature is the queen of the arts —the greatest of them all, because it embraces them all. When you write, you are… — César Aira Copy Share Image
The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
BE GRATEFUL EVEN for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate… — M.I.A Copy Share Image