The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
As I continued to grow throughout middle and high school, I began to expose myself to different areas of art like makeup,… — Aquaria Copy Share Image
I don't slot actors into the image of a character that's already built. I build characters by listening to the voice and… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
“Good” can be a stifling word, a word that makes you hesitate and stare at a blank page and second-guess yourself and… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
The fear of loss is an engine of horrors, but also a source of the greatest forms of heroism. There's not a… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I don't know any artists or painters, like, "Oh that painting group." I want to write down this idea of a group… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
“Brent Kessel combines some of the most sophisticated knowledge of financial planning and investment strategies with a sincere and grounded practice in… — George Kinder Copy Share Image
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he or… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Karate is my main martial art; that is what I train in every day. It has always been in my life. Sumo… — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
Nature is so huge. I mean, you can't even look one way! Everything is huge. That was my natural instinct, to create… — Willie Herron Copy Share Image
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“Love is fragile at best and often a burden or something that blinds us. It's fodder for poets and song writers and… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“There is indeed a poetical attitude to be adopted towards all things, but all things are not fit subjects for poetry. Into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But rather than relying on a thin, idealized hope that we will all one day just get along, we can approach conflict… — Diane Musho Hamilton Copy Share Image
It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was… — K'naan Copy Share Image
I have mixed feelings about Napster. I like what it can do for an unsigned band. It can help them sell 10,000… — Shaggy Copy Share Image
We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of thinking about nothing, you know? It's tough for me not to sit there in a dark room with your… — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
“An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate… — John Frohnmayer Copy Share Image
My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Even if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well enough, but for a… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helpeth our infirmity in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life ends… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“I congratulate you people on being in the raging mainstream of the arts. It is commercial artists like myself who operate in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I don't know what art is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you get paid to do. For myself this… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His lap looked like it was already occupied--by a giant boner. It pressed against his pants like a circus tent pole. Elephants… — Juniper Bell Copy Share Image
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
