What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Look at related industries. Concept art for games and film. Animation. Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and… — Joe Madureira Copy Share Image
When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No,… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
That's all I ever wanted to do in my life was music. And because I was a failed artist, I was actually… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and… — Myrtle Aydelotte Copy Share Image
We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If you think about feudal China during times of the emperors, food was a very elevated art form and you had to… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As we look at Hollywood and the controversy around the Oscars, it goes back to the voting block and the lack of… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I really wanted to take the viewer to the 'here and now' regarding the exterminations, and communicate directly in a visceral way.… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. — Ahmed Best Copy Share Image
If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to… — Ross Bleckner Copy Share Image
if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“How did he get his ideas? “I’m enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is more important than… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the… — Andy Couturier Copy Share Image
Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
You know, criticism began as the province of amateurs, of wealthy men who liked the arts. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it. — Tre Cool Copy Share Image
We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang. — Massimo Bottura Copy Share Image
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Well, intellectual importance is directly linked to financial value in the art world. I mean, thats the thing you really want -… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image