“And still, still, there is more to describe- we paint because drawing breath is an agony and exhaling an ecstasy and somewhere… — Marie Anzalone Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
“In 1846 on of his Academy exhibits was a painting called The Angel Standing in the Sun . Turner found this passage… — Anthony Bailey Copy Share Image
“What was missing, I've come to believe, were the two postures that are most characteristically biblical -- the two postures that have… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Van Gogh on his brother's upcoming marriage: "It’s because he’s in Holland, where he’s getting married one of these days. Now, while… — Liesbeth Heenk Copy Share Image
“Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“The very first thing I remember in my early childhood is a flame, a blue flame jumping off a gas stove somebody… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
“What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?” The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, and hit… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Witnessing the panoply of beauty in all of nature takes us out of our shell of self-absorption and makes us realize that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration.… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“Why do you paint, Akram?” I asked. “What—” “Close your eyes, Sebastian,” he said, stopping me. “Just for a minute, close them… — Ahmad Ardalan Copy Share Image
“During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Others, faced with Turner's competitiveness were less contented. C.R. Leslie was on hand when Turner's Helvoetsluys , to start with "a grey… — Anthony Bailey Copy Share Image
“Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity of an artist,… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“The search for this inner truth is the search for beauty. People whose vision does not penetrate beyond the narrow limits of… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
“I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Here, this is for you," the girl said, holding out one of the pages on which she'd been drawing. "Oh, I... well,… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
“You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you -… — Rilke Letters to a Young Poet Copy Share Image
“Laura's mind was already racing with the creative possibilities presented to her. She whipped out her sketchbook and started to work away… — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
“When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top,… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally hears an artist being… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“It would be futile to delude ourselves that at present, readers find every pathography unsavory. This attitude is excused with the reproach… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
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