The great thing about cinema is that it's a great binder. It brings people from across the world together, often erasing the… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling… — William Hartung Copy Share Image
There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
“You want your art to be hip and seem cool to people, but a great deal of what passes for hip or… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I've never been what they call a 'pure gallerist.' I find that somewhat pretentious, honestly - I'm an art dealer. I like… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
“And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making — even more than storytelling, painting, or music… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
If you're an artist or someone creative, it's all about cheap rent and not having to work for a living. That's what… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
“Meaning in art isn’t the same as meaning in science. The meaning of the second law of thermodynamics, so long as the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one… — Ben Mink Copy Share Image
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules ...… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“The word 'brand' makes me shudder because of its links to commercialism and selling out. But the truth is that because great… — Rod Judkins Copy Share Image
I like to read and listen to music and go for walks and travel and see art. I enjoy cooking and eating… — James Spader Copy Share Image
Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being.… — Tsutomu Ohshima Copy Share Image
“If we don't have pictures in our minds when we read, then it is the interaction of ideas - the intermingling of… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're… — Young-Ha Kim Copy Share Image
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences,… — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
“As they moved from exhibit to exhibit like reluctant tourists in some artist's studio, Buffin sat on a stool with his limbs… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There's a shift of these young artists who have been brought up, educated, with these media around them. If you have a… — Gunnar Kvaran Copy Share Image
“Her books on alchemy were marvellous objects, every page a work of the engraver's art, but they nowhere contained instructions like "Be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I… — Angela Cartwright Copy Share Image
Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Read books that expand you, that are bright. See films, plays, art forms that elevate your consciousness, that bring you into a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When there's something negative in my life, be it in the art or the music world or in my personal life, I… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
“A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image