The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images. — Johan Huizinga 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
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel Copy Share Image
BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant. — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I'm honestly not jealous of my wife at all - when she succeeds I'm psyched. It never occurred to me to feel… — Christopher Noxon Copy Share Image
I think the Europeans are a lot more spontaneous, more artistic to some degree. But I don't think they have the technical… — Lee Van Cleef Copy Share Image
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy;… — Lester Horton Copy Share Image
The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
I love writing and the little filmmaking I have attempted, but comics is the means of artistic expression that feels most comfortable… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science. — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots,… — Lexa Doig Copy Share Image
One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I feel like my dad was the more artistic one, creating his own thing, loving to be around people, and all this… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Emotional release by itself, no matter how "real," "honest," etc. the emotion may be, is never enough to create a character...such release… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
