To this day, I've never had an assistant. I really insist on doing everything myself because I value the role of the… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Without wishing to sound arrogant, when I was younger, I used to win every single martial arts tournament I ever entered. I… — Michael Bisping Copy Share Image
The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers,… — Raoul Hausmann Copy Share Image
“Rank asked why the artist so often avoids clinical neurosis when he is so much a candidate for it because of his… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he… — Gerard van der Leeuw Copy Share Image
Miles and I had been looking to do a martial arts show for some time. Our first two movies that we wrote… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I don't know Prince's music like the back of my hand, but I was always a fan of him as an artist… — Amine Copy Share Image
“But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share Image
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer… — Harry S. Broudy Copy Share Image
After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had… — Trevor St. John Copy Share Image
Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy… — Champfleury Copy Share Image
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be… — Suzanne Falter-Barns Copy Share Image
I feel independent music is a true expression of art, whereas in movies the songs are based on various situations and each… — Jeet Gannguli Copy Share Image
A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Art and society was a lot more subject to sexism 50 years ago than it is now. Since that period, there have… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.… — Wilfred Peterson Copy Share Image
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sitting in art I said I'm going to name my family after Winnie The Pooh. The girl in my class says no… — Author Name Copy Share Image
“The acceptance of woman as object of the desiring male gaze in the visual arts is so universal that for a woman… — Linda Nochlin Copy Share Image
“Art is dead. Art is dead. Art is dead. Art is dead. Entertainers like to seem complicated But we're not complicated I… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of… — Arthur Fogel Copy Share Image
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some… — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in moving toward writing stories - thinking about the graphic novel form, and just something more long-form. I did… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image