Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere.… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned… — Gabriel Macht Copy Share Image
“Edie was a gorgeous, avant-garde girl back in the day when that could be a full-time occupation, but in marriage she slowly… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you… — John Milius Copy Share Image
Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we… — Nicolas Godin Copy Share Image
I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness.… — Ingmar Bergman 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've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game,… — Tori Amos 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
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 think that's the key to any artistic endeavor: You want it to feel fresh and not have people look at it… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything… — St. Lucia 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
“Pursuing an artistic existence can let you experience emotions you wouldn’t know otherwise. It gives you hope and helps you see the… — Pantelis Kassotis Copy Share Image
Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of… — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale,… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio… — Khaled Hosseini 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
A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
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