One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, 'I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn… — Stephane Rolland Copy Share Image
I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists...… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject… — Robert M. Pirsig 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
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
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
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 acting, you get to explore such an artistic side with different characters to research and learn and explore different things inside… — Gina Carano Copy Share Image
My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperament. I have never seen, myself,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain,… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
It's really hard to do, but I think it's an important thing for, no matter what type of artist you are, to… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
“As a boy, all I ever wanted was this: a life dedicated to art; every idea, every breath an artistic gesture. And… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned… — Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Copy Share Image
Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Whether it's films or painting or music or writing a book, the greatest experience is being able to express yourself and what… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted… — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm very excited about dance and love it with a deep passion. I also struggle, tire and become discouraged. But what has… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My artistic practice always involved diversity to the groups of people in which I would find camaraderie, friendship, colleagues, whereas I feel,… — Lorna Simpson Copy Share Image
