The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
RIHANNA IS TODAY'S MOST FASCINATING PERFORMER, A MYSTERIOUS AMALGAM OF AMIABLE WARMTH AND GLITTERING CHARISMA. WITH HER KEEN CREATIVE EYE FOR LINE… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I consider myself an 'actorvist.' When I say that, what I mean is that I use my art to inform my activism… — Wilson Cruz Copy Share Image
“The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for… — Mick Dodson Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls. These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
What populates a comic-book convention? Well there's actors, and there's dealers, and there's comic-book artists and writers, and there's cosplay people, toy… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems,… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I know for me as an artist, I think I do myself and my listeners a disservice, if I don't listen to… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“Madness? Categories such as that do not exist – as far as I'm concerned, everything is healthy, except for fruit and vegetables.… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking… — Max von Essen Copy Share Image
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
They don't want art that might actually change the community. They just want consumers. They don't want people to manufacture things. They'll… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“After listing the vast array of famous composers, artists, and authors who had created works based on Dante’s epic poem, Langdon scanned… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four… — Cliff Richard Copy Share Image
People should stop thinking that an artist that controls what he does is a bad thing. A lot of artists today are… — Daft Punk Copy Share Image
The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
“Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile. Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.” — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Although any collective answer to my question remains to be seen, personally I feel quite certain of it. Because if there’s one… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess… — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
I'm just more attracted to actors. I like their choice to be artists - that's ballsy. And a guy who has such… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things.… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
I'm not naive. Sometimes interpretation is more of an art than a science. There are those who would label interpretation absolutely anything… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
“Nick commenced a monologue explaining the impossibility of such a phenomenon: the subordination of content to the aesthetics of language in Arabic… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“A real cook would take pride in the patina, he wouldn’t fuss and fume over the spotless perfection of a pot. He… — Tanya Anne Crosby Copy Share Image
What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image