I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are… — Gertrude Kasebier 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
I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and… — Eve Ensler 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
Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization. — Igor Youskevitch Copy Share Image
I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me. — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order -… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of… — Zoe Kazan 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
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by… — Herbert Muschamp Copy Share Image
That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak-… — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image