I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they've done and… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I always knew I was going to be an artist. It was a done deal right from when I was very little.… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales,… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do… — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but… — Walter Hamilton Copy Share Image
Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out… — Owen Hart Copy Share Image
Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
As for Aamir Khan, he keeps raising the standard with every film. For an artist like me or a newcomer like me,… — Tiger Shroff Copy Share Image
“This is a difficult question for me to answer. Somehow I want to explain to them that the land is beautiful, beyond… — Melanie Hoffert Copy Share Image
The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I went to art school, and I studied drawing and video art, and I've always approached music so visually as a result… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all… — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of… — Van Deren Coke Copy Share Image
“After a time, my hand had become as skilled as my eyes. So if I was drawing a very fine tree, it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Of course I want you," he said roughly. "Every thought in my head is of you. Tasting you, touching you, taking you… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work… — Adolf Loos 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
“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
