Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
On 'Idol,' you have to show off your vocal abilities, so I stuck to the ballads, so I'm glad my first single… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
“The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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
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
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 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
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being…It happens… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
The having of the ideas is quite otherworldly. And then the making of the art itself is quite scientific. It's a combination.… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
“I wonder if it matters that what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace,… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
As much as I love to slay a red carpet hitting the ground running with 'Beale Street' and 'Native Son,' representing two… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
But for me, true art can't be created by accident. There are boundaries to the reach of algorithms. Limits to what can… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“ Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
“Cizek had used art as the point of entry of his thinking into a whole new world of education—an avenue that had… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than… — Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere Copy Share Image
“The power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A lot of the old-school artists didn’t even respect what’s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down… — Joseph Furphy Copy Share Image
I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face… — Andrea Martin Copy Share Image
I hold strongly to my identity as a Chicago artist and want to do whatever I can to participate in creating a… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“group of aspiring young Mormon painters who called themselves “art missionaries” arrived from Utah, many to enroll at the Académie Julian. Their… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I usually turn over when ads appear on television. But - very rarely - I am gripped by a particularly beautiful one,… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet… — John Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Actors are always being asked to speak. Sometimes there is a well-honed script, often there is not. But we are well-practised in… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
When I'm in the audience of Broadway shows, I feel like I'm in the presence of something really special with artists working… — Ethan Slater Copy Share Image
“Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
