If you wanted to pursue some kind of artistic pursuit and you had another career, then you would definitely fall back on… — Steve Toltz 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
Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as… — James Spader 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
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
There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start doing the remix and I just can't find anything good, so I just decline after trying. And I never… — John Talabot Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well. — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I think the narcissism comes from the industry side of things. The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
First and foremost, I'd say my father, Bert Lahr ... gave me a love of theatre--its kinetic and emotional potential and its… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly. — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government,… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits… — C. S. Lewis 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
The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
The movie not only about what story you're telling and who you're looking at. It's mostly about how you're telling it and… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image