I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done. — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the… — Earle Brown 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
I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress… — Larry Page 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
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
My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to challenge everyone to raise the game on the artistic level. We are supposed to be the best. Make… — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
I have always had a deep belief that every movie, every artistic expression, is political. Don't be fooled. Even ones that we… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want… — Melanie Laurent Copy Share Image
In the 'west' success is defined in purely material terms. He with the most money wins... We should question, speak out and… — Mark A. Brennan Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to get to where I am, but I am here and it is everywhere I want… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
Cartooning is an artistic commitment that requires the full attention and passion of the artist on every level; one should not get… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on… — Mark Bostridge Copy Share Image
I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Well, it's pretty ironic to get an artist achievement award from the same foundation that disavowed one of my artistic achievements (that… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Some crafts have been practiced for centuries. These crafts were created using skills passed from generation to generation, and were motivated by… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile. — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out. — David Allan Coe Copy Share Image
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect. — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't… — Matt Letscher Copy Share Image
People make films for different reasons. For money. Or, they make them because something in them demands artistic expression. I do it… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes. — Gil J Wolman Copy Share Image
I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
