Record industry's not so much against artists, but certain people are just wicked people that sit up in the industry who go… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
“If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [of gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I’m just so glad that I have other members. If I was a solo artist, I don’t think I would have been… — Kim Tae-yeon Copy Share Image
I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I know a lot of artists say this, but it's hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
For those uninitiated in the art of guerrilla war tactics: Smear campaigns never run fair or square. So just to set the… — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
“These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit,… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect.… — Alice-Leone Moats Copy Share Image
Jesus must have been a really great artist in creating enemies because he was only thirty-three when he was crucified, and there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
“Unlike my father, who blindly churned out one canvas after another, I had real ideas about the artistic life. Seated at my… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to.… — Cassie Ventura Copy Share Image
To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“The very first thing I remember in my early childhood is a flame, a blue flame jumping off a gas stove somebody… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
“As if the aim of a beautiful view is to create a great artist or to make the lonely to forget his… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York… — Julia Garner Copy Share Image
“The San Francisco therapist kept telling me I shouldn’t be terrified of creative experimentation. “I don’t know what’s going to come out… — Suzanne Rivecca Copy Share Image
As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture… — Robert Stromberg Copy Share Image
“The parents are making threatening noises, turning dinner into performance art, with dad doing his Arnold Schwarzenegger imitation and mom playing Glenn… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“The art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Literature and the other arts play with pattern - our brains understand our world by recognizing patterns - and with possibility. The… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” she declares. “What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
“Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic… — Kahil Gibran Copy Share Image
But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
“However," he continued, "this canvas is preferable to the paintings of that varlet Rubens, with his mountains of Flemish flesh sprinkled with… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I Do In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you read Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," you know that he likes to create leverage, he likes to… — Wendy Sherman Copy Share Image
I would love to do comedies and I would love to do dramas. I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so… — Berenice Marlohe Copy Share Image
I’m pleased to see the progress made on the Windsor Regional Hospital project. This is an important project for our community in… — Sandra Pupatello Copy Share Image
I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
![“If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [of gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind" (Chapter 65,p. 68)” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ae/edward-gibbon-710_art_if-we-contrast-the-rapid-progress-of-thi_1734580.jpg)
![“The parents are making threatening noises, turning dinner into performance art, with dad doing his Arnold Schwarzenegger imitation and mom playing Glenn Close in one of her psycho roles. I am the Victim. Mom: [creepy smile] “Thought you could put one over us, did you, Melinda? Big high school…” quote by Laurie Halse Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb4/laurie-halse-anderson-623_arnold-schwarzenegge_the-parents-are-making-threatening-noise_1134061.jpg)
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