The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town… — Dante Ferretti Copy Share Image
I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
“The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of the creation, remains within or… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Art to me means lot of things - images and words. I may be no artist myself, but I recognise the pleasure… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
I think that in making a genre movie, you have a really great opportunity to use abstraction to allow the audience to… — Miles Robbins Copy Share Image
God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Through the Internet and technology, anyone can now seek out any artist, composer or undefined niche of music they find interesting. All… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I admire people who find that what fulfills them is their art or their work, but what fulfills both me and my… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect.… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
“Virus writers are, sociologically, not much different from taggers who spray cryptic symbols on walls, or even the “unofficial” graffiti artists: they… — Peter H. Gregory Copy Share Image
In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
“Formerly, in my attempts to isolate this talent, I deducted, so to speak, from what I heard, the part itself, a part,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I got a C in art when I was in 11th grade. That it is even possible to come out of a… — Leandra Medine Copy Share Image
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Obviously I know if you're putting yourself out there, saying, 'Hey! Listen to my music!,' with pictures of yourself in the magazines,… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstep How did we go from nonchalant conversation me… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
I retire from competition with great pride at having had a positive impact on my sport. I intend to keep training and… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics.… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and… — Kyrie Irving Copy Share Image
But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Stand-up is an art but since it's humor and it's funny - a lot of guys that don't think it's art are… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
A year before I met Mark Brydon - he was the one I used to make all the music with in Moloko… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
