I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control,… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Doing Sherlock Holmes I really got into my development as a martial artist and now coming into Iron Man 2 I really… — Robert Downey Jr Copy Share Image
I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“A con artist, a total imposter, had played on my desires for the Cinderella dream and won a Monopoly trip to jail.… — Debra Moffitt Copy Share Image
I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts.… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
“Here, this is for you," the girl said, holding out one of the pages on which she'd been drawing. "Oh, I... well,… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don't you think? It is a kind… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
“The culture of our world, right now, is crafted by little boys who only recall being stood up on their first date,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I think historically there have always been new ways to find an artist. From seeing somebody in a club traditionally to running… — Matt Serletic Copy Share Image
The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I had a lot of fun during all the performances, but the most memorable one was 'Born This Way.' Lady Gaga is… — Nayeon Copy Share Image
“I think he is the ornament of society! Oh, there is not just one role for the artist in society. He has… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
Before my sister, Sara, and I went to bed at night, my mom would show us books on Manet and other artists.… — Erdem Moral?oglu Copy Share Image
Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“There’s an art to severing ties with someone. Not everyone needs to be dumped the same. Some need a gentle hand, others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interesting. Acting is great, and… — Emmanuelle Seigner Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised… — Dore Ashton Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
