I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there.… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Some movies are what I would call murky. Just because it's murky doesn't make it artistic. It makes it hard to see. — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I think some people see those three numbers 9/ 11 and they walk away. That might be changing now. People are more… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My artistic goal was to write something that's one hundred percent real and true to me and to this world. I tried… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
For people who make inventions, whether they make scientific inventions or artistic inventions, they're driven by pretty much the same thing. It's… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with… — Inez Haynes Irwin Copy Share Image
I grew up in an artistic family where everyone was doing something in one field of the arts or another. I was… — John Buffalo Mailer 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
My view is that "A Small Oak Tree Runs Red" is about putting people 'on the record,' who otherwise would have been… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament. — Marcel Boulestin Copy Share Image
That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes we just need a space that gives us permission to be the best, most full version of our artistic selves, and… — Rafael Casal Copy Share Image
I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit.… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You get to have some bigger comedic moments with some very real dramatic stuff. All that in one makes for a fulfilling… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline. — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
The Internet is the more democratic media them last times. And for being anarchical, it's open to all manifestations, artistic also. — Katya Chamma Copy Share Image
Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective. — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. — Daniela Bobadilla Copy Share Image
I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity. — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit. — Rich Burlew Copy Share Image
