Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I was in Nashville and I was having just the most amazing time there, discovering who I was as an artist because… — Lisa Origliasso Copy Share Image
“Thinking in art and morals and even mathematics is neither the reflection in consciousness of a mechanical order in the brain nor… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
“ Je cherche le caractère dans chaque matière. Or le caractère de la céramique de gris est le sentiment du grand feu,… — Letter to Madeleine Bernard (1889 Gauguin Paul Copy Share Image
I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
“When you speak of my insanity, please let it be with the beauty only art knows. Let it bleed till it becomes… — P.H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm sure scientists would point to specific brain chemicals, but I think love is actually a kind of magic. It's what allows… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
“There is a LOT of bad news every day. The world seems to be getting more and more crazy. So every time… — Marcy Ferro Copy Share Image
I did work at Christie's for a couple of weeks, getting ready for 'The Devil Wears Prada,' getting people coffee and doing… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my… — Edi Rama Copy Share Image
Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
“You defined yourself by your enemy’s reaction. Conflict was the media bait—hence, now, the political chum. The new politics was not the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined… — Alysia Abbott Copy Share Image
Maybe now if you're not an exhibitionist you're private. Or maybe it's just that for a lot of people - sometimes in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable… — William Butler Copy Share Image
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“I do not say that artists cannot be seers, inspired: that the awen cannot come upon them, and the god speak through… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, in the '70s, artists were certainly divided about the Andy Warhol persona, and about the… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I have an art magazine about drag called 'Velour,' named after myself, and I have a monthly show called 'Nightgowns' that curates… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
“Artists often collect. Sometimes compulsively. They hang on to things. They don’t want to let go. Like paintings. I don’t want to… — Celia Rees Copy Share Image
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Juno: Your little girlfriend gave me the stinkeye in art class yesterday. Paulie: Katrina's not my girlfriend alright? And I doubt she… — Juno (The Movie Copy Share Image
I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston,… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
Through the art of personal development, we see an opportunity for these animals to inspire compassion, essentially creating a path to deep… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
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