“Preparing vegetables, I had discovered, was an exacting art, almost as rigorous as closely reading Shakespeare, but the latter was a solitary… — Judith Newton Copy Share Image
I think that there was a fad where everyone said, 'I want you to create a signature step for my artist.' The… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing.… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Under a row of pear trees—once an orchard?—I laid me down and idled, an art perfected during my long convalescence. An idler… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the foundations of law, or mathematics, or science, or art, or child rearing,… [the] issues constitute a polarity extending from the… — Silvan Tomkins Copy Share Image
There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's such a changing industry, and I realize that it's become more digital- and singles-driven, but I still love listening to a… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
“Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of… — Stephen K. Hayes Copy Share Image
Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always… — Wong Kiew Kit Copy Share Image
A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Maybe an artist's position in society is different today because it's more individualistic. You're not a direct servant anymore to the patron-you're… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think at one point, a whole new younger generation of critics come in and they're really aware of zeitgeist in their… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
I don't want to be hubristic about art's possibilities. I don't think that art has a causal relationship to revolution. I do… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in… — Fred Schepisi Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
What I became a comedian for was to get my art out. To get some of these feelings and things I had… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
“We divide the roles of mystic, doctor, therapist, artist, herbalist, naturalist, and storyteller into separate, often inimical professions. In most other societies,… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically… — Quentin Dupieux Copy Share Image
According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore… — John Green Copy Share Image
Some people fight and stuff outside the cage, but I never liked that sort of thing. I just always wanted to do… — Alexander Volkanovski Copy Share Image
“There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until… — David Farland Copy Share Image
“To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
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