The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be… — Ronnie Apteker Copy Share Image
What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
“The sole object of Logic is the guidance of one's own thoughts: the communication of those thoughts to others falls under the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
In life, as in art, some endings are bittersweet. Especially when it comes to love. Sometimes fate throws two lovers together, only… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
“education and money. I go to church with the kids for the same reason Genie and I play our grandchildren classical music… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Really, my biggest risk was just the initial step to quit my day job to do music. I was packaging and shipping… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I trained in martial arts and wanted to become a UFC fighter. That was my goal. I only really learned how to… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
“There is however, one reason why the arts so rarely accept a mission that IS within the power of the Church to… — Aidan Nichols O.P Copy Share Image
I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live… — Derek Hough Copy Share Image
Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata,… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
iStockphoto was revolutionizing the stock photography industry, establishing a whole new business model and democratizing stock art for everyone. It made sense… — Bruce Livingstone Copy Share Image
It was really cool to get to know her as a person and artist. And getting to act with her after a… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
I have two sisters that are directors: one's in documentary, one's in film. My mother was a writer and a painter, so… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art… — John Berger Copy Share Image
At that time, I was still in an experimental stage, trying to blend Western drawing techniques and Chinese brushwork together. It was… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
“Flora had also learned the degraded art of 'tasting' unread books, and now, whenever her skimming eye lit on a phrase about… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Subject: Wet Panty Fetish I’m not sure if you’ve realized that I left my thong in your pocket yet, but I want… — Whitney Gracia Williams Copy Share Image
To make a film like 'The Grandmaster,' I know I'm not going to make just a standard kung-fu film; it's not going… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor… — James Grant Copy Share Image