Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
As an artiste, I don't worry about whether I am taking the beaten path or a fresh route when it comes to… — Rubina Dilaik Copy Share Image
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd… — Fred Gwynne Copy Share Image
“Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
“The person who waits upon moods in impoverished. If the painter only wanted to paint when in the mood for it, he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I don't think you think of your audience as much as you think, when you're revising, how it holds together. I mean… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It’s not lost on me that I’m so busy recording life, I don’t have time to really live it. I’ve become like… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses,… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
I'm reclusive when it comes to me giving art away because I get real sensitive about that and critiques. — J.I.D Copy Share Image
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
“To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in,… — Poo Bear Copy Share Image
Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto… — Emory Cohen Copy Share Image
... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
