Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director… — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
“The different arts reach our brains in different ways; they lodge there with differing ease, at different speeds, with different degrees of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made… — Gerard van der Leeuw Copy Share Image
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
My undergraduate degree was in art history! Raising money for Chipotle was really my MBA. The money for my first restaurant came… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Despite their rising international acclaim, Sachal Studios remains virtually unknown in Pakistan. The ensemble is faced with a daunting task: to reclaim… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like,… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
You see devaluing of the running backs and the higher valuation of the offensive line. It's difficult for me because I don't… — Jerome Bettis Copy Share Image
I joined Khalsa College just opposite Don Bosco in class XI, but soon I quit studies and was sent to Bangkok by… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti quite by accident. I went there on vacation after finishing a… — Yvette Mimieux Copy Share Image
I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness.… — Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie Copy Share Image
I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
We all have weak moments, moments where we lose faith, but it's our flaws, our weaknesses that make us human. Science now… — Sarah Connor Copy Share Image
“Because his art is such a difficult one, the writer is not likely to advance in the world as visibly as do… — john gardner Copy Share Image
You just gotta act according to how you preach. And that depends on what you value, what your morals are, and whether… — Melissa Barrera Copy Share Image
Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad'… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
“Reviewers, critics, guest editors... Such people may have an eye for literary conventions and contrivances, allusions and innovations on the art. But… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Some centuries ago they had Raphael and Michael Angelo; now we have Mr. Paul Delaroche, and all because we are progressing. You… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“I thought that if I couldn’t make a living as an artist, at least I shouldn’t starve. By the time I had… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
“The special problem here is that the artistic medium of fiction writers—language—is not innately sensual. The medium is unforgiving whenever we look… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
I'm desperate to arrive... to this next phase where we can just exist and be fully liberated from the confines of having… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
Years ago I decided that the greatest need in our Country was Art... We were a very young country and had very… — Isabella Stewart Gardner Copy Share Image
“The innocent beauty of a young love, repeated and filtered by the minds of poetic and passionate young manga artists - no… — Nakkinak Copy Share Image
The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he… — John Coplans Copy Share Image
The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Schiaparelli’s collaborations with Dali and Cocteau as well as Prada’s Fondazione Prada push art and fashion ever closer, in a direct, synergistic,… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
I tend to listen to the artists that originally inspired me to start playing music in the first place, because there is… — Jason C. Miller Copy Share Image
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
