The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management. The long-term problems are artistic, and they started 40 years ago with… — Emanuel Azenberg Copy Share Image
Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening,… — Tom Irwin Copy Share Image
One of the things I wanted to do after three, prolonged movies is to do something that was really, kind-of knee-jerk decisions,… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the… — Lee Van Cleef Copy Share Image
I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government,… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say,… — Hans Richter Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
In the documentary space, the biggest and most obvious difference is that in those films you're not in it for a financial… — Julie Smolyansky Copy Share Image
Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
My father told me that if I ever did anything artistic, I was going to look like a hooker. I told him,… — Sofia Vergara Copy Share Image
What I want to try to prove is that artistic games, when done properly, can still be a commercial success. By doing… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
I believe passionately that games are an art form and that the power of our medium flows from our audience, who are… — Ray Muzyka Copy Share Image
I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
It's cool how to see how my creative juices have shown themselves when they're not being used for 'Euphoria' every day. I'm… — Hunter Schafer Copy Share Image
Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whatever the hair… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I usually cast myself in things because acting is how I best relate to artistic impulses. It's what I've wanted to do… — Amber Sealey Copy Share Image
I want to have conversations, because they give you confidence in your choices. I learned it first on Boyz n the Hood,… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have… — Aarti Mann Copy Share Image
I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
The big catalyst was seeing my sister, when I was 11, doing a dramatic recital. When I saw her on the stage… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?”. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
The world is in great need of more music education. When students play music, it allows a part of their artistic mind… — Paul Reed Smith Copy Share Image
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