I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
I saw my potential as artistic director, which is very different from designer. Fashion companies might have $200 million to $300 million… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect. — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person,… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
With The Pogues, at least the first three albums I'll stand by completely, yeah? Because I was in artistic control then, yeah?… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian… — John Lennon 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
I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
More than anything, I’m excited to have the artistic freedom and opportunity to make a sophomore record. Everybody dreads the sophomore slump,… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image