Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
“Why incentivize laziness? High-school students shouldn't be discouraged from grappling, sometimes unsuccessfully, with challenging books, pictures, and songs. A really, really good… — Jeff Sypeck Copy Share Image
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how… — Rob Nilsson Copy Share Image
Playboys' was an authentic junkie record. Art Pepper was just out of jail, Chet was arrested a week after the session, and… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If you are on Craigslist to get a sofa, and you see one for free. You think there’s something tragically wrong with… — Jessica Hische Copy Share Image
Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
“When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America,… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Typically, in France, someone in my position should keep their mouth shut. I'm an entertainer, operating in the realm of pop, and… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and… — Teresita Fernandez Copy Share Image
All my favorite artists were pretty serious in the sense that their music was something I could sink my teeth into, from… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
I have always been aware of different movements and directions in art. But, in general, I'm always bored by any kind of… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I've always performed. From the time that I was little, I was pretty precocious and always gravitated toward performing arts. But I… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
“Passion," the artist implied, would have been the dominant note of his life, had it not been held in check by a… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I love poetry. It's at the heart of everything I do. Poetry transforms what we call language, and uses language as the… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Brahmacharya is not against sex. If it is against sex then sex can never disappear. Brahmacharya is a transmutation of the energy:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
“The point is not to resist painful experiences or grasp at pleasant ones: that's a kind of craving - and craving leads… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist… — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
“Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
“When he craved contact, he stopped in to visit the Cézannes and Monets at the Musée du Luxembourg, believing they had already… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
