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
I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married… — John Walford Copy Share Image
It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
You collaborate with actors who are also talented and visionary and come together on a artistic direction within the confines of humanity… — Ruth E. Carter Copy Share Image
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
It wasn't just music in The Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in… — Tommy Ramone Copy Share Image
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by… — Adam Yauch 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
I think I am an actress and I'm artistic and I love spontaneity and all of that, but I just decided really… — Jenna Fischer 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
I was a strange child. I was the kid with funny hair listening to dodgy music [...] I'd come in with my… — Katie McGrath Copy Share Image
I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic. — Al Goldstein Copy Share Image
Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
