Say - i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted… — Jamie Muir Copy Share Image
I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking… — Bob Beamon Copy Share Image
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. This… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing… I'm quite simply following… — Jean-Claude Ellena Copy Share Image
If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
My favorite artists are able to take things to the edge or just over the edge. Miles Davis and Duane Allman, for… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
Becoming mature is not important for art. Technical perfection is not relevant to art. Precision in art is only achieved by total… — Jonathan Meese Copy Share Image
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“My art unkind, my energy all gone blind;The limbs uneven, the face shallower,Because those who I see are not seen,Those who see… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
The one thing that I always encourage women who want to be WWE Divas to do is have something you are passionate… — Eve Torres Copy Share Image
Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think… — James Franco Copy Share Image
With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of people who like training with guns are probably drawn to it not only for practical reasons,… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an ancient art. The lucent vibes of stories express what we cannot articulate directly. When we hear someone’s story, we… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Unconventional careers are often feared, because they don't guarantee success or least a job. Hence, parents of most media, art and design… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
Art uses many different styles, but his voice is very consistent. He's always concise and clever and funny. That's true of somebody… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
In the '90s, I kind of put aside all those things I loved in the '80s and I got really into watching… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
I just want to continue adding walls to my craft as an artist and business man. I never want to cap off,… — Eskeerdo Copy Share Image
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher, and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all… — Allan Nevins Copy Share Image
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
I feel like I've mastered what nervousness is, and simply, nervousness is, fearing the future. Or, I like to put it as,… — Redfoo Copy Share Image