I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it… — Alan King Copy Share Image
I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
If you're not the brightest or if you're not great at sports, or if you're not artistic, then you've got to find… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Certain Academy Awards like Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're… — Randy Thom Copy Share Image
There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ah," he said. "I had an . . . artistic disagreement with the director of the panto. As it happens, I take… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work… — Carl G. Fisher Copy Share Image
The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living… — William Webb Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You know, I must really work hard. I'm in the last stage of my artistic life. But I'm so busy that I… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
"Triennale in the City" is a scheme that is of priority for the sponsoring local government. For many local governments, revitalization is… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
You've got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don't do that, you're doing a disservice to the audience,… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with… — David Dixon Copy Share Image
The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories.… — John Fairchild Copy Share Image
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
I think that's what really separates me in the world of fashion is I have a real understanding of actual clothes and… — Scott Schuman Copy Share Image
“If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government,… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the… — Lee Van Cleef Copy Share Image
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management. The long-term problems are artistic, and they started 40 years ago with… — Emanuel Azenberg Copy Share Image
Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening,… — Tom Irwin Copy Share Image
It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image