An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes. — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
“Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.” — A.E. Croft Copy Share Image
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale,… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe there is a moment growing up when you build your own mood board. You do a collage - you collect… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort."Paranoid Android" was the saddest song I'd ever heard in… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
I think it[3D] should be used as a new artistic form, not as a gimmick, not to impress you but the existence… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
The bottom-line, you just have to. You do it because you want to do it and need to do it. You live… — J. Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I firmly believe in and support everyone's right to freedom of artistic expression. STEEL MAGNOLIAS is my artistic expression, and it is… — Robert Harling Copy Share Image
Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as… — Ben Edwards Copy Share Image
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity. — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate. — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't… — Brad Renfro Copy Share Image
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil… — Gordon Gee Copy Share Image
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound… — M. R. James Copy Share Image
I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image