Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
There are many who want me to tell them of secret ways of becoming perfect and I can only tell them that… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“What's that?' Thaniel said, curious. The postmarks and stamps weren't English or Japanese. 'A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
“Jobs was a strong-willed, elitist artist who didn't want his creations mutated inauspiciously by unworthy programmers. To him it would be as… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like an innocent young maiden who is extremely beautiful, and whom many other maidens, who are the other fields of… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
“On the Rules of Perspective A bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There's art and there's commerce. You have to find a way to mesh the two. It's important to do the little movies… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
I guess standup is really painting pictures with words - especially for me, as I describe quite fantastical, visual things. My art… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
The things I'm grateful for are: I had the one thing that I feel really lucky about, which is that I made… — David Rees Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and… — Stephen Sprouse Copy Share Image
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
“Art then becomes a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the… — Luis Camnitzer Copy Share Image
If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician.… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to… — Bad Bunny Copy Share Image
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to… — Jack White Copy Share Image
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The… — Jordan Wolfson Copy Share Image
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
