Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen. — Paul Budnitz 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
An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value… — Kim Yuna Copy Share Image
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person,… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
My mom is one, but there have been performers in my family since as long as we can trace them back, so… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
Just selfishly, I wanted to be associated with something as synonymous with cool and cutting edge and artistic as CBGB. People are… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it… — Margaret Prescott Montague Copy Share Image
Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
I want to put it back together now, this artistic expression that contains religious feeling. I want to investigate: What was the… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I remember being a 12 year old art kid and feeling like there was no exciting art movement happening, especially for somebody… — Chet Zar Copy Share Image
Finding a kid that could be introspective and internal and thoughtful, and then also be wild and free and guileless and physical,… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia. — Jose Carreras Copy Share Image
The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write. — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Never try to do anything artistic when you're feeling something overwhelming. It's like driving a car: If you're experiencing road rage, pull… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
“No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take… — Rob Liano 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 live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations… — Oscar Wilde 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
Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
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