“I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way,… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
“What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house,… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all… — Julie Gayet Copy Share Image
I don't distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records… — Charles Sheeler Copy Share Image
Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music,… — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
I love the idea of finding new talent, however you do it, and the television mechanism - seeing artists grow and rise… — Matt Serletic Copy Share Image
If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good singers. They wouldn't be where they… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Everybody is in your business, gossiping and being mean spirited. It's different. Sometimes I'm like, "Do I want to do this?," because… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Acting is definitely an incredible pursuit, but on the other side, it's a business, and learning where art meets business was a… — James Wolk Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only I don't… — John Arbuthnot 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
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think I've always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
[Into the Badlands] wasn't going to be two days of a splinter unit at the end of the shoot. The action and… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
“It is the best of humanity, I think, that goes out to walk. In happy hours all affairs may be wisely postponed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“into art or music, how about that exhilarating moment when, during the 1982 Winter Olympics, the U.S. hockey team pulverized the Russians?… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image