Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
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There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it… — Kaija Saariaho Copy Share Image
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I feel like I spent so much time trying to understand my identity and my identity as an artist. But when all… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
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We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
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My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all.… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Art as radar acts as an early alarm system, as it were, enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
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... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
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The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
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There is a love-hate relationship between New York and the rest of the country, but New York is unarguably the city that… — Harold C. Schonberg Copy Share Image
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