At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest,… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Every film, obviously, everyone starts out aiming at making it good, and in the end, filmmaking is really fragile. Making a film… — Jeremy Davies Copy Share Image
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
The thing that makes makeup or clothing or fashion beautiful is the fact that the person wearing them loves themselves and loves… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body.… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness,… — Peter London Copy Share Image
I wasn't even aware that there are different styles of taxidermy, traditional and rogue. I wound up really liking the rogue stuff… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things.… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov do Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite on PBS. I have no numbers to prove it, but I bet that… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
I'm making entertainment, but I'm making art. This is my art. Hopefully, it's profitable, hopefully it makes money, but at the end… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of… — Andrea Thompson Copy Share Image
There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Dreams are self-created, but dreamers often do not understand the images that their own minds produce. Therein lays the essential paradox of… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
Just selfishly, I wanted to be associated with something as synonymous with cool and cutting edge and artistic as CBGB. People are… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other… — Piet Zwart Copy Share Image
In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because… — James Balog 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
Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
My mom is one, but there have been performers in my family since as long as we can trace them back, so… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
The pleasure of nonfiction is that it takes all of that sort of artistic and observational skill, but then there's a more… — Ted Genoways Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal,… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
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