I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Back in the '90s, we saw prominent non-film artists like the Bombay Vikings do a splendid job on old classics and people… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Theodore Roosevelt is of singular interest, because he was, in many evident ways, a self-created figure. He transformed his life into performance… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers?… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
“Art, she said, is more nuanced than life. If a teacher is lecturing and looking out of smudged windows, smeared with obscenities… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
Our job is to get out of the way of ourselves and let the art flow through us. We need to stop… — Kyle Cease Copy Share Image
As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or… — Steven Page Copy Share Image
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever… — William Westney Copy Share Image
“A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you loved… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Understand that this art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the spirit I'd… — David Belle Copy Share Image
“You’re the Dentonville High art teacher?” She couldn’t help feeling defensive at his derisive tone. “Yes, and I love my job.” “Do… — Sara Daniel Copy Share Image
“Shadow! or Spirit! Whatever thou art, Which still doth inherit The whole or a part Of the form of thy birth, Of… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
For the young generation, when they see that there is a film director from Cambodia to go on to be nominated, for… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
“Happy people don’t create anything, their world is one without art and music and skyscrapers, without discoveries and innovations. All leaders, all… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why?… — John Irving Copy Share Image
We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“I think there's a story inside every one of us and we all have different talents that allow us to tell our… — Susan Rushmore Copy Share Image
Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
Business schools do most things very well. They are just not comprehensive and what they miss are things like culture and creativity… — Grant David McCracken Copy Share Image
I came into having an artist's career in this very sheepish and directionless way. It's hard to explain, but I was 18… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I spent the two and one-half months between my meeting with the Art Commission and the beginning of my actual mural work… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“Bad art, for Niemeyer, was not just that which promotes immorality, but, in an even deeper sense, promotes unreality—the fantasy that leaves… — Gregory Wolfe Copy Share Image
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Only someone who doesn’t understand art tells an artist their art somehow failed. How the fuck can art fail? Art can’t be… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of administrator and ex-administrators and board of regents from Baylor that say that Art Briles was a scapegoat at… — Tilman J. Fertitta Copy Share Image
Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a… — Shirley Hibberd Copy Share Image
I remember going through school and doing art, which was the only thing that I actually found fulfilling, and I couldn't really… — Joe Anderson Copy Share Image
