Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“The art of governing, Dickon, is that of making use of talent wherever you do find it. Trust is too rare an… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
The center for me is my heart, actually, and my emotional connection with the work. That's where authenticity comes from. It's also… — Mirah Copy Share Image
As songwriters and artists we get a lot of attention and gratification when we write about the moments that have hurt us,… — Victoria Monet Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
As a young artist in New York, I thought about postwar Japan - the consumer culture and the loose, deboned feeling prevalent… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio.… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
“The point is that you have here a direct, unmistakable assault on sanity and decency; and even - since some of Dali’s… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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When Allen Ginsberg was still alive, he was was an artist, but he was very local. He was just another wing-nut in… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The reason I love blogs so much right now is that I am seeing more critical voices appear, and that's kind of… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
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And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
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I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
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“what was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surroundings. Stealth is more… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
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The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
