I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where… — Matthew Polly Copy Share Image
The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a great advocate of Scottish art at a time when Scottish artists struggled to be taken seriously. They were… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan tells interviewers what he wants to tell them, not what they necessarily want to know. His responses are really part… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
We all bear within us the potentiality for every kind of passion, every fate, every way of life. Nothing human is alien… — Max Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history.… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity,… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“... Have you ever reflected that posterity may not be the faultless dispenser of justice that we dream of? One consoles oneself… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When he had finished placing the objects that would be a part of the portrait, the artist asked his subject, "Why do… — Edward Cline Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that I'm a consummate live artist. Album work is kind of just like quilt weaving or something. But live… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
“...Mathematics and music are at the opposite poles of the human spirit. These two antipodes confine and determine all creative and spiritual… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It's absolutely different. The whole situation… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“Where is the line between art and pornography? But there’s always been a huge overlap between the two; you can see scenes… — Alastair Macaulay Copy Share Image
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote. The truth is death, he wrote. I’ve fought nicely against it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
