I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Art is like an avalanche being poured down your throat. You know it's going to crack, eventually it's going to go out… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
I have a Master's Degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
“Jimmy said, "We survived slavery. Think about that. Not because we were strong. The American Indians were strong, and they were on… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is just so satisfying to create work that is beyond the framework of language. I think for me that when I… — Truong Tran Copy Share Image
I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF THE SPIRIT Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hope that me, my art, and my music and the Doechii experience inspire somebody to be themselves or just be more… — Doechii Copy Share Image
“The finished clock is resplendent. At first glance it is simply a clock, a rather large black clock with a white face… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
“We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. We have adopted Christianity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The point is this. The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are the highways… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess… — Alexander Morozevich Copy Share Image
“If you see me sitting at a dining room table with a clean plate and bowl in front of me, you’ll know… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Every year on my birthday I get a small dash on my inner thigh where my balls currently hang. You can't tell… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“A&R stands for “artists and repertoire.” No one knows what that means, but the A&R guy is the person at the record… — Dave Hill Copy Share Image
Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my… — Clifford Ross Copy Share Image
Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness.… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
“The story is told of Michelangelo being asked about his methods for sculpting. He replied simply that he worked on a block… — David duChemin Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image