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
You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion.… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
I love stepping onto the ice knowing I can create whatever I want or am feeling that day. It inspires me to… — Tara Lipinski Copy Share Image
The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the… — Ilya Kabakov Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I love finding something. For me it's not just about the athletic challenge, it's about finding new things. When I'm not doing… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my… — Maddie Ziegler Copy Share Image
It was only when I got to high school and was in the art program that my artistic talent was recognized. The… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
There's all this evidence that we leave now of our life, especially if you're a comedian or an entertainer. I mean, I… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
To understand the limits and opportunities of algorithms in the context of artistic creation, we need to understand that the latter usually… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that… — Charles Bartlett Johnson Copy Share Image
How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry,"… — Pablo Casals according to Eric Siblin Copy Share Image
I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes… — Edmund Blair Bolles Copy Share Image
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I've already spent a lot of my life doing what makes me go. There's a life out there while I'm still young,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has… — John Walford Copy Share Image
You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good… — Mike Davidson Copy Share Image
My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about… — Honor Harger Copy Share Image
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed,… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had… — Trevor St. John Copy Share Image
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game,… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image