“You shouldn’t hold on to things, to neuroses. People-artists-think they have to hold on to their neuroses, their pains, or they won’t… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
Many architects say that they will never do a bridge. But I think they will discover that just as Fallingwater is a… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“Sun Tzu Wu was a native of the Ch'i State. His Art of War brought him to the notice of Ho Lu,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
“Great artistic works are often based on solving several psychological problems simultaneously. In literature this is often accomplished by splitting apart the… — Linda Austin Copy Share Image
I want to create work that extends beyond myself because I always thought it was a way to change the general rules… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
The music alone wasn't enough. It was great, but when an artist had an amazing look - like the MC5, or the… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“Outside of the dreary rubbish that is churned out by god knows how many hacks of varying degrees of talent, the novel… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Having set its mark on the generation before Cocteau’s, symbolism expressed a form of inner dissidence confronting the narrow-minded materialism and utilitarian… — Claude Arnaud Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a set as an artist I'm right in front of the stage the entire time, interacting with the crowd.… — Lil Jon Copy Share Image
If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely… — James P Hackett Copy Share Image
I have a terrific relationship with Woody and realize it's full of dramatic overtones, but it's really quite simple. It revolves around… — Soon-Yi Previn Copy Share Image
Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it… — Anko Itosu Copy Share Image
I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“If our cultural lives are sick, it is likely to be an impediment to our spiritual lives. Much popular culture promotes a… — Kenneth A. Myers Copy Share Image
“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason,… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In the long run, you have to have patience and integrity and a plan. You can't compromise your vision. I'm a bit… — Einar Selvik Copy Share Image
It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They… — David Geffen Copy Share Image
“Now don't think I've lost my mind - but I'll tell you, I'll look at some of the cards I have, some… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not… — Padma Subrahmanyam Copy Share Image
“A most remarkable man; the sort of man I wish to be , of whom it might someday be said, that he… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
“The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an… — Kenyon Cox Copy Share Image
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