I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The art of it is, the more we can bring complex game mechanics to a mass market, the more engaging the games… — Mark Pincus Copy Share Image
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Because I worked in fashion, I know that I like fashion. Haute couture is a form of art that I can appreciate.… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I… — Clint Black Copy Share Image
“These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
“Three years of changes, moves, uncertainties, upheavals; the war, the revolution; scenes of destruction, scenes of death, shelling, blown-up bridges, fires, ruins—all… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it).… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“I have pretended to go mad in order to tell you the things I need to. I call it art. Because art… — Iain S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Making music, dancing, the theater, conversation, proper and urbane deportment, these were cultivated here as particular arts. It was not the military,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The 'cool' record store. It is where you can talk to people who are like you. They look like you, think like… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I had, as I told you, a great passion while still almost a child. When it was over, I divided myself in… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I feel like there are moments where musicians may be more interested - or culture in general - to show roots and… — Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega Copy Share Image
There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era,… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives.… — Jonathan LaPaglia Copy Share Image
The real Art of Peace is not to sacrifice a single one of your warriors to defeat an enemy. Vanquish your foes… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When you have kids, you just can't believe your heart could love something so much. My kids inspire me every day and… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
“My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“I drew a portrait of an invisible man on a nice canvas, because that's all you see. Oh, and I used a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued.… — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Copy Share Image
I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately; and the nutrition is… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar… — Nicolas Provost Copy Share Image
I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm… — Katy B Copy Share Image
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
I remember on a Friday afternoon getting a phone call from Grant Simmons saying, "Mike," we got to be pretty good friends;… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
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