When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the…

People hide behind the word aesthetic. They say, ‘Well, it’s just that designer’s aesthetic.’ But when you see 18 seasons in a row and…

— Joan Smalls

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

— David Gray

Lighting is everything. It creates mood and has an emotional effect on you.

— Zak Bagans

I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they…

— Damien Chazelle

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a…

— Rene Dubos

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is…

— John Piper

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is…

— Colin Greenwood

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

— Aristotle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

— Willa Cather

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had…

— Toni Morrison

Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by…

— Al Gore

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he…

— William Greenough Thayer Shedd

The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the…

— Phil Dusenberry

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

— James Howell