You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
I always thought my big brother was the coolest. We were very close when I was young, and we still are in… — Rekha Sharma Copy Share Image
The reason why I'm not a pop star is I would have hated it. I'll stick to being an artist. I'm not… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
“Robinson had long mastered the art of coming instantly awake, a skill which had proved invaluable when his children were young. He… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child,… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs… — Hasso Plattner Copy Share Image
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities… — Sharon Waxman Copy Share Image
... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
LOVE DOES NOT SEES WITH THE EYE , LOVE SEES WITH THE HEART, SO WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE YOU SEE WITH… — Akin Copy Share Image
I never had any intention nor interest in being an artist, but when I made work I realized that this was my… — Paul Rusconi Copy Share Image
We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“The whole concatenation of wild and artificial things, the natural ecosystem as modified by people over the centuries, the build environment layered… — John Stilgoe Copy Share Image
“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will… — Libreria Editrice Vaticana Copy Share Image
What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I have supposed,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Human, you are a machine, an organism, an animal, a primate, an artist, an athlete, a thinker, a sponge, a spirit, a… — Laren Grey Umphlett Copy Share Image
As I got older, my ambitions changed and I wanted to be a graphic designer. In form five, I did Art for… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I wanted to show the community you can build something here without having to raid taxpayers' dollars. What better way to show… — Norman Braman Copy Share Image
Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Children are so talented. Little children, until about the age of 10 or 11, are just little artists. They need to be… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There's no formulas. It's all about passion and… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“He wore a mask of elegance and indifference, his unusually handsome features taking on the appearance of a sculpture. But I had… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee!… — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image
I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
