Contemporary art for me is a real driver; it propels us into the future. And at the same time, it's what connects… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
“The artistic is thus very close to the ethical. If only we could grasp the world from someone else’s standpoint, we would… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say,… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all… — Julie Gayet Copy Share Image
My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I really started to enjoy Instagram more recently because it's something that shows people what I'm doing and what I'm going through,… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Television production is so insane. There's so many moving parts and flying pieces and you're desperate to make it cohesive and artistic… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was… — Curtis Jones Copy Share Image
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for… — Edwina Findley Copy Share Image
Art is never about provocation and never about human taste. Since the human being is not the measure for art, provocation cannot… — Jonathan Meese Copy Share Image
I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
“Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
There's something artistic about skating. A psychologist could tell you exactly why that is, but I think there's something much more expressive… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
People usually forget that fashion designers are not artists, but there is an artistic side that is very strong in my point… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role,… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you feel something artistic, you need to get it out of you, do it. You gotta get out and play in… — Chris Wyse Copy Share Image
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was… — Aja Naomi King Copy Share Image
A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
