Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses. — Yasmine Bleeth Copy Share Image
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm. — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted "Most likely to succeed." which I know was credited to my artistic achievements. — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin. — Bess Truman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background. — Blixa Bargeld Copy Share Image
A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small… — Franz Cizek Copy Share Image
Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If you wanted to pursue some kind of artistic pursuit and you had another career, then you would definitely fall back on… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
In Mexico, muralism is an important part of the artistic vocabulary, and it has a very different place than it does in… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Maybe in my personal life, but as far as my career, I've been offered some humongous things in my career and didn't… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment… — Will Wright Copy Share Image
In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak-… — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped. — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image