“I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go!… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world… — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art… — Casey Neistat Copy Share Image
When the nations of the world look upon the United States, they see a country which has achieved what they would all… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King's English. Learning how to speak… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Joseph Gotto, yeah. Just all-around one of the more inspiring artists - not because of any sort of specific content direction, but… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point… — Adam Fuss Copy Share Image
Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent… — Samuel George Morton Copy Share Image
“Sharon Garlough Brown may be a novelist, but she’s also a portrait artist, painting with tender detail the souls of four women… — Sharon Garlough Brown Copy Share Image
The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self.… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
“At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife's barbiturate addiction and death by… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art.… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Being DIY is awesome because you have total control, I never really wanted to get signed. I'm successful because I make art… — MC Lars Copy Share Image
How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I am grateful to organizations like the International Child Art Foundation that gives us the opportunity to see the world through the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
An artist's initial broad stroke is always most impactful, and obsessively adding layer upon layer of paint to fill in details often… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think time has changed a lot and you need to be presentable all the time. Social media has become really important… — Asrani Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“both you and paintings are layered… first, ephemera and notations on the back of the canvas. Labels indicate gallery shows, museum shows,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“It feels better to speak in metaphor, easier. It’s saying the truth without actually saying the truth. You could only speak to… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result,… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
