They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs… — Hasso Plattner Copy Share Image
I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child,… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
The reason why I'm not a pop star is I would have hated it. I'll stick to being an artist. I'm not… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
I always thought my big brother was the coolest. We were very close when I was young, and we still are in… — Rekha Sharma Copy Share Image
I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“El duende is literally the goblin wind or force behind a person’s actions and creative life, including the way they walk, the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
As actors and actresses, we must rejoice in the possession of our physical faculties. We must experience joy in the use of… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear,… — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“I cannot locate any aestetic dignity in [Stephen] King's writing: his public could not sustain it, nor could he...Art unfortunately is rarely… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“The Cabbage White The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
“Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at… — Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
“And accordingly, the adolescent sensibility is one that prevails in much of the art world, where the most adolescent of goals, transgression,… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I always say it takes three weeks to know a character and three months to own it. And I think that's probably… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
The word 'star' is misused. A good film will never fail. And if you have become an actor to become a star,… — Varun Dhawan Copy Share Image
I am not so bad, actually, at doing my own makeup, so for more low-key events, I'll do my own, but for… — Devon Windsor Copy Share Image
I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what's happening, it's so… — Julia Michaels Copy Share Image
When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their… — Thelma Houston Copy Share Image
Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
“In the hierarchy, the artist faces outward. Meeting someone new he asks himself, What can this person do for me? How can… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I remember one time in my junior year, in my art class, our teacher had us doing, like, finger paints, and I… — CC Sabathia Copy Share Image
When we finished [training with my wife] we came to St. Paul, because St. Paul was the first place where we got… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Sure we girls can wear pants now, and vote, and go to college, have a bank account, get a job that is… — Cecil Castellucci Copy Share Image