"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival… — Elisa Kreisinger Copy Share Image
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.' — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll… — Victoria Legrand Copy Share Image
Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say I'll never rock with a band, because I'm too much of a fan of the aesthetic of… — Dawn Angelique Copy Share Image
What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are… — Victor Pinchuk Copy Share Image
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic. — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum… — Lamar Boschman Copy Share Image
The people from where I grew up have no appreciation for Paleolithic rocks or menstrual calendars. I'm a retriever of lost iconographies.… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are a lot of guys out there with skills who have not contributed to the evolution of the instrument. It's about… — Vinnie Colaiuta Copy Share Image
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets… — David Milne Copy Share Image