My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all… — Julie Gayet Copy Share Image
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Young people, don't get the idea that you have an artistic temperament which must be humored. Don't believe you cannot do good… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent." Clary paused, her foot on… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
If you feel something artistic, you need to get it out of you, do it. You gotta get out and play in… — Chris Wyse Copy Share Image
A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was… — Aja Naomi King Copy Share Image
Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn't this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Art is never about provocation and never about human taste. Since the human being is not the measure for art, provocation cannot… — Jonathan Meese Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for… — Edwina Findley Copy Share Image
People usually forget that fashion designers are not artists, but there is an artistic side that is very strong in my point… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
There's something artistic about skating. A psychologist could tell you exactly why that is, but I think there's something much more expressive… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
“Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role,… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was… — Curtis Jones Copy Share Image
Television production is so insane. There's so many moving parts and flying pieces and you're desperate to make it cohesive and artistic… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
I was in a hardcore band that had no melody, no chance of finding any success, and I was just trying to… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture,… — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
When I started dating I had relationships with people who came from families that weren't at all artistic or whatever, and they… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive,… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I think a lot of awesome stuff is coming out with smaller presses. Small presses don't have to have huge board meetings… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
