Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river,… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
“the art of the novel revealed anything, it was that human nature was the great constant, in any culture, in any place,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
As we breathe and live, have a conversation, and you look in someone's eyes, and you see a sunset or have an… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
“the conviction in the minds of many people that cryptology is a black art, a form of occultism whose practitioner must, in… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I naively thought I was making a low-budget movie. But, when the film came out, the Daily Variety reviewer at that time… — Stephanie Rothman Copy Share Image
“That little guy, said Boris in the car on the way to Antwerp. You know the painter saw him-he wasn't painting that… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
“A society must always aim for balance. It needs intellectuals, it needs warriors, it needs traders, it needs artists, and it needs… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks that I'm only versed on the ground or I'm just a ground person. But in mixed martial arts, you have… — Julianna Pena Copy Share Image
I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that,… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
European films had art. And it was easy to make a European film. They didn't come from the studio system, they weren't… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of Bowie as an artist, with his Burroughsian cut-up technique, creating these undecipherable, abstract songs, where we all… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
My ma and pa are both very artistic, so I suppose it's in my blood. But my ma's the one who was… — Grey Damon Copy Share Image
“Photography turns one and all into fools, including—especially—artists like himself, eager to hunt life and trap as many of its fleeting variables… — Richard Woodward Copy Share Image
I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
“Capitalism tends to do to art what value meals do to cuisine. Think of what the food industry in our nation has… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested,… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
“How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I feel like I spent so much time trying to understand my identity and my identity as an artist. But when all… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people,… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it… — Kaija Saariaho Copy Share Image
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art you must master the craft. If you… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“I can't understand how people can have grown up in the eighties, amidst all this competitive spirit, gangster battles, hiphop - and… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
“The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
