The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force… — Karl Blossfeldt Copy Share Image
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.… — Gosta Mittag-Leffler Copy Share Image
Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're… — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
All of the good things that surround art - you have to embrace the idea that it could be a complete disaster.… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
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Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers… — Jeff Fisher Copy Share Image
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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body,… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
London exists normally in a state of bleach bypass. There's the artistic context of "Blow Up" and "Performance" and all the Sixties… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results.… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
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What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
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[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
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If you're not the brightest or if you're not great at sports, or if you're not artistic, then you've got to find… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it… — Alan King Copy Share Image
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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