Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement. — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements. — Michael Arad Copy Share Image
We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us… — Mark McGrath Copy Share Image
If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic. — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body.… — Valie Export Copy Share Image
The thing that makes makeup or clothing or fashion beautiful is the fact that the person wearing them loves themselves and loves… — Amandla Stenberg 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
My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov do Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite on PBS. I have no numbers to prove it, but I bet that… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things.… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also,… — Tinsel Korey 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
There are many in East Asia who simply judge students on the basis of national tests. The top universities in the United… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out… — Marcel Duchamp 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
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful... — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves. — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
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
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
“There are things the artist intends, and things the viewer sees, and what the viewer sees isn't always what the artist intends.… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs. — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans… — Lady Gaga 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 moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,'… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
“No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image