It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also. Sappho was… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement,… — Lisa Frank Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth.… — Lily Yeh Copy Share Image
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If anything, Twitter helps me read about perspectives outside of mainstream media and learn about new authors, artists, and ideas that I… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
I love a lot of the young, new artists who are coming up, including Adele. I suppose anybody would freak out to… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think every individual, and every society, is perfected just in proportion to the combination, and cooperation, of masculine and feminine elements… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have found that sharing this very intimate part of my life has been really powerful, because it has brought support from… — Tiffany Shlain Copy Share Image
What is thy thought? There is no miracle? There is a great one, which thou hast not read, And never shalt escape.… — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
I started playing piano and guitar when I was in elementary school, and then I was finally like, 'I want to sing.'… — Ravyn Lenae Copy Share Image
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Once something gets noticed and people love you, most of the makers want to put you in the same bracket, feeling this… — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness… — Sridevi Copy Share Image
THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
“And yes—scholars might care about the innovative brushwork and use of light, the historical influence and the unique significance in Dutch art.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various… — Leon Askin Copy Share Image
We use technology in service of the art, as a storytelling tool - and if we want to do something that's never… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
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