I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
What people that are professionals in the art world - both in literature and the other arts - always try to do… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're… — David Chase Copy Share Image
“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop… — Jacques Plante Copy Share Image
All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
When you're actually talented, and you have something to offer, people start to look at you for you as opposed to who… — Katie Cassidy Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I'm most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical… — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
“We find . . . in everyday life, where dilemmas are sometimes solved by the most surprising new propositions; many artists, philosophers,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“Edward Tylor, a distinguished nineteenth-century cultural anthropologist. For him culture is “that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Most of our artists are songwriters, so the songs are still central to all this. If you don't have great songs, it… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
“And criticism - what place is that to have in our culture? Well, I think that the first duty of an art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and… — Paul Rusconi Copy Share Image
“Everything could undergo conversion except the artists. How can you convert disorganizers of past and present order, the chronic dissenters, those dispossessed… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
“A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
“If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing—a thing beyond myself. Crime is common.… — Sir Arthur Conan Doye Copy Share Image
A black belt is nothing more than a belt that goes around your waist. Being a black belt is a state of… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
I realize it's about the artists and about the fans. Those are the people who truly have the power. It's like politics,… — David Banner Copy Share Image
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists,… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder… — Ian Brennan Copy Share Image
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“If you have walked into a museum recently - whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Everything, she noticed, seemed capable of transmogrification. Even the two boulders in the backyard sometimes turned to silver in the early morning… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“Earth was the shorthand name for the classroom studio, named Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Spirit. Megan thought the alchemical name was especially… — Beth Kery Copy Share Image
When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons,… — John Tavener Copy Share Image
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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