I like to believe a true fan of music or an artist has a genuine respect for what the artist does and… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
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“The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely express any universal… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to teach a person to be an artist. But yet, I'm here, and I suppose this is… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
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David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character… — Sheldon Siegel Copy Share Image
I can fully understand [that] artists want to be able to pay their bills. As a fan of art, and art as… — Bruce Pavitt Copy Share Image
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I'm an artist in residence, I've still been able to accept commercial jobs, and what I'll do is I'll make little videos… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
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Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, "I'm not going to be treated… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
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People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered… — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
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I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I like performing the martial arts scenes in films to whatever extent they will allow me to, which most of the time… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
what was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not… — Nayantara Sahgal Copy Share Image
“Back to the 1st Person: I'd even made up art theories about my inability to use it. That I'd chosen film and… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotions which stand at the cradle of true art… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
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