There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Every film, obviously, everyone starts out aiming at making it good, and in the end, filmmaking is really fragile. Making a film… — Jeremy Davies Copy Share Image
In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest,… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually… — Alex Raymond Copy Share Image
I like to service the full audience of America, so I try to do things that are just real artistic, like when… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body.… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
The thing that makes makeup or clothing or fashion beautiful is the fact that the person wearing them loves themselves and loves… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game,… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness.… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we… — Nicolas Godin Copy Share Image
Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you… — John Milius Copy Share Image
“Edie was a gorgeous, avant-garde girl back in the day when that could be a full-time occupation, but in marriage she slowly… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of… — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
I saw my potential as artistic director, which is very different from designer. Fashion companies might have $200 million to $300 million… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
“Pursuing an artistic existence can let you experience emotions you wouldn’t know otherwise. It gives you hope and helps you see the… — Pantelis Kassotis Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
