It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“But when Odysseus rose, that man of many devices, fixing his down-cast eyes on the ground he stood: nor his scepter swayed,… — Homer Copy Share Image
One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping… — Liz Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
The most important part of my practice as an artist has been remembering to stay humble. There is so much hurt, so… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy,… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
People say that artists come and go but let me tell you I am not an artist. I am first a human… — Dharmendra Copy Share Image
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a student, you have to learn what areas are most difficult for you... Those are the same difficulties you'll have as… — Tania Bruguera Copy Share Image
Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful.… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Since my Dad was an artist, I grew up around art shows and openings and that had a big impact on me… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its… — Malvina Hoffman Copy Share Image
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“I should like to make life beautiful--I mean everybody's life. And then all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When we even use the term 'specialized world,' we already have a problem! We're making art; they are making art... these worlds… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
My studio works in cycles. I am consistent with all of the practices, but I give attention to one part for a… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction,… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
Does the Grammys intentionally use artists for their celebrity, popularity, and cultural appeal when they already know the winners and then program… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
Do you know what's most interesting? Working with the very strong restrictions of the institution. In the Renaissance, the aristocrats would order… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The private person Tom Neuwirth and the art figure Conchita Wurst respect each other from the bottom of their hearts. They are… — Conchita Wurst Copy Share Image
“So did you bring me down here to show me how artistic you are?" "No, I just wanted to talk to you… — Sang Kromah Copy Share Image
THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
IMBECILE!" the chef shouted. "Next time why don't you just put your whole HAND in the food, hey? Yes, your whole hand,… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“This is why the shaman is the remote ancestor of the poet and artist. Our need to feel part of the world… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the… — Brad Stephan Gregory Copy Share Image
[Role of Dr.Strange] gives me an excuse as an actor to be learning with my character, which is something you can do… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image