I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act -… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters. — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack. — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal. — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had… — Trevor St. John Copy Share Image
I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game,… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's… — Amanda Harlech 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
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
Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
My artistic goal was to write something that's one hundred percent real and true to me and to this world. I tried… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration. . . . — Wayne D. Dosick Copy Share Image
When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your… — Mark McGrath Copy Share Image
I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst. — Karolina Kurkova Copy Share Image
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations. — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
In this artistic world, you might as well find a way to work with somebody that you have admiration for. — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
If somebody else wants to think it's artistic, well, that's fine. But to me, it's my job. I'm supposed to do it… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
“A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic. — Lynn Collins Copy Share Image
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic. — Andy Lau 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
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful... — Michelle Obama 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
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
