“I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Why incentivize laziness? High-school students shouldn't be discouraged from grappling, sometimes unsuccessfully, with challenging books, pictures, and songs. A really, really good… — Jeff Sypeck Copy Share Image
I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
“It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to every woman.” It might have been a mummy dispensing elder wisdom. “One is rational, like a man.… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“We, who are so schooled in the art of listening to the voices of others, can often hear our own voice only… — Florence Falk Copy Share Image
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists that return to the same subject. Whether it's the natural subject, or the focus or the… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there.… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career,… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
“You have a disconcerting way of looking at me so directly that I feel as though you could see right through into… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
What I want to try to prove is that artistic games, when done properly, can still be a commercial success. By doing… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces,… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
Women from fashion magazines, they hate other women. They like to tell other women they are ugly and often it works. Women's… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image
The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute… — Nicholas Ozeki Copy Share Image
I liked the Hollywood stuff. But I also liked the fact that in both, you know, I guess in the, like, the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Reasoning is the fourth step of the SMART process after the information is analyzed. William Atkinson, in his 1909 book the Art… — Brian Ledger Copy Share Image
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“your art is not about how many people like your work your art is about if your heart likes your work if… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“To deny sex is to deny life. To reject art is to impoverish yourself, rejecting pleasure and growth. To accept sex and… — William Rotsler Copy Share Image
I thought that Wu-Tang was the best sword style - the best sword-style of martial arts. And the tongue is like a… — Rza Copy Share Image
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I have always worked well within the federal agencies to ensure New Mexicans have the resources and tools they need to succeed… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
“Art cannot be excused from following God’s law, and art disgraces itself by seeking that freedom. Anything that cannot be put into… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced.… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
“DeathWish: You spent some time working with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on a creative level, how did this experience help your… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
