Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art,… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
“Tremendous concentrations of paper wealth have made it possible for a few persons or institutions to endow certain sorts of human playfulness… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.” — John Berger Copy Share Image
“For all I made out that sex was simply a carnal act, it was in fact, much more. I found it, like… — Steven LaVey Copy Share Image
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People should stop thinking that an artist that controls what he does is a bad thing. A lot of artists today are… — Daft Punk Copy Share Image
My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an… — Seth Copy Share Image
I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
“In children's art class we sat in a ring of kindergarten chairs and drew three daffodils that had just been picked out… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Roecker sure is a romantic about certain things, like art and music, though you might not know it from watching Live Freaky!… — John Roecker Copy Share Image
As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
But you know, we have more hits than you can possibly think about. One of my personal favorite artists is the wonderful… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“As they moved from exhibit to exhibit like reluctant tourists in some artist's studio, Buffin sat on a stool with his limbs… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change. — John Feldmann Copy Share Image
Art and war are opposites, so our goal as an artist is to build and create, not destroy. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time… — Julie Doucet Copy Share Image
Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.… — Joan Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
