I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
“Maybe, if she finished this painting, her father would see that her mother's life hadn't gone unfinished, that her art would live… — Deanna Lynn Sletten Copy Share Image
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge… — Dave Liebman Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I have studied the art of the ancients and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And… — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high… — Betty Who Copy Share Image
I don't, really a fashionable person. I'm an actor, so I like costumes. But fashion is very popular now. Really overly popular.… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
“Irony and cynicism were just what the U.S. hypocrisy of the fifties and sixties called for. That’s what made the early postmodernists… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at... And… — Phil Stern Copy Share Image
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so… — Austin Butler Copy Share Image
My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.'… — Bill Paxton Copy Share Image
“The impact hit her like a physical blow. He was..."Beautiful." Eyes of such pure undiluted blue it was as if some heavenly… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take his work unto itself. But… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others,… — Carlos Gracie, Jr Copy Share Image
The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I tried everything. I moved a thousand miles away from home to Chicago and a new environment. I studied art; I desperately… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is some pressure when you are a woman doing what I do that you must support all other women unconditionally, no… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I had to learn, because as an artist myself, an artist owns that right to protect their interest of how they want… — Bryce Wilson Copy Share Image
“Genuine art . . . does not have as its object a mere transitory game. Its serious purpose is not merely to… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society.… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
