There are records I'll listen to one time and zero in on what's happening, and then I'll listen again to something I… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
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I know Ritchie Valens in 1959 had 'La Bamba' but to be totally Spanish - because, you know, Ritchie didn't speak Spanish… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
“Every woman, even the most respectable, had roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife; curls of Indian ink; there was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of thousands of musicians, artists, painters, poets, writers and bricklayers, and we certainly need walls, music and art, but… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“There is a popular notion that artists work from inspiration—that there is some strike or bolt or bubbling up of creative mojo… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In… — William James Copy Share Image
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“...It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they… — Bill Drummond Copy Share Image
“Their is a side of me that wants to do artistic things that would never be on the radio. Then their is… — Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench Copy Share Image
“My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you.… — Lorde Copy Share Image
“Then playwriting itself became a nettle, became several in fact; the shallowness, the wasted time, the messiness of other minds, the hopelessness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make a record in May… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Just draw 'cause you love it, you know, I think that's why you should be doing it. You should always be doing… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
I am a famous artist. I make millions. But I frequently see debut shows of unknown artists with prices that are double… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Vinyl is the most genuine way to listen to your favorite music - there's no skipping tracks, so you're listening to the… — Cedella Marley Copy Share Image
To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art.… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I colour for a living. When I am a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is that I… — Janice Tanton Copy Share Image
Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the… — Anthony Heald Copy Share Image
Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and… — Gilles Menage Copy Share Image
For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
“Thomas was like a drug, so smooth and overwhelming that he took one up a level in their emotions just by watching… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Becoming a fashion designer is agreeing with the fact that what you experience or what you see as free is also connected… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Artists will come into my office and say, "I just came from another label and they said you're research guys, you're data… — Monte Lipman Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“To go for liberal arts meant becoming that vague, mysterious entity, a 'liberal arts type'--the kind of person who in all likelihood… — Shotaro Yasuoka Copy Share Image
I don't want to feel like I have to be a poster child for anything other than being a great artist. I… — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
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