Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance. — H. W. Janson Copy Share Image
One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its… — Manish Arora Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
“The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It's a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as… — Joanne Froggatt Copy Share Image
If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I firmly believe in and support everyone's right to freedom of artistic expression. STEEL MAGNOLIAS is my artistic expression, and it is… — Robert Harling Copy Share Image
Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I think it[3D] should be used as a new artistic form, not as a gimmick, not to impress you but the existence… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
The bottom-line, you just have to. You do it because you want to do it and need to do it. You live… — J. Robert Spencer 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
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
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 think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist… — Masi Oka Copy Share Image
Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake. — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
I wasn't artistic in drawing or painting, but I think I am artistic in sport. I think I'm always looking for the… — Robin Van Persie Copy Share Image
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I don't like these commercial films I do. I'd far prefer to do more artistic films, more cult films. — Shu Qi Copy Share Image
Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must… — Lillie Langtry Copy Share Image
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs. — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything… — Giles Gilbert Scott Copy Share Image
I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial… — Mili Avital Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for something that tells me a little bit about what it means to be human. That's how I measure… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet. — Olivier Messiaen Copy Share Image