Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't… — Bill Mumy 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
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
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
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
I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or… — Max Born Copy Share Image
I don't want to make compromises. I want my little silly jokes to be told with the correct punch line, and I'm… — Grant Hart Copy Share Image
If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
I think the film and TV industry - the acting world - has a tendency to attract a lot of people for… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing… — Gil J Wolman Copy Share Image
In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
Certainly a big challenge for me with evening-wear is to make it look modern and artistic and avant-garde. The very concept of… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious. — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other,… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth… — Michael Angelakos Copy Share Image
The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Release and regulate the flow of your inborn creative energy to reach your artistic potential. — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate. — Susannah McCorkle Copy Share Image
