I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
“Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also. Sappho was… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in… — Cara Santana Copy Share Image
Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement,… — Lisa Frank Copy Share Image
I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If anything, Twitter helps me read about perspectives outside of mainstream media and learn about new authors, artists, and ideas that I… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth.… — Lily Yeh Copy Share Image
I love a lot of the young, new artists who are coming up, including Adele. I suppose anybody would freak out to… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I started playing piano and guitar when I was in elementary school, and then I was finally like, 'I want to sing.'… — Ravyn Lenae Copy Share Image
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
I have found that sharing this very intimate part of my life has been really powerful, because it has brought support from… — Tiffany Shlain Copy Share Image
What is thy thought? There is no miracle? There is a great one, which thou hast not read, And never shalt escape.… — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I think every individual, and every society, is perfected just in proportion to the combination, and cooperation, of masculine and feminine elements… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw painted this picture in 500 B.C. for the Mesolithic era was a period of transition more noteworthy for its important… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me. It's the "Braveheart" moment, the stuff Joseph Campbell… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Being a musician and artist can feel superficial at times - you talk about yourself every day and pose for photos for… — Yuna Copy Share Image
I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“You cannot reach lofty heights in art if you do not first discover the unsurpassable beauty in your own heart. If you… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
