First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Francis Scott Fitzgerald really read culture pretty damn clearly. It was he who understood that artistic achievement, really imaginative work, goes where… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in… — Geeta Iyengar Copy Share Image
I was a strange child. I was the kid with funny hair listening to dodgy music [...] I'd come in with my… — Katie McGrath 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
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
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 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
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
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot… — Bat for Lashes 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
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
In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories.… — John Fairchild Copy Share Image
I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
“If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I think that's what really separates me in the world of fashion is I have a real understanding of actual clothes and… — Scott Schuman Copy Share Image
We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
You know, I must really work hard. I'm in the last stage of my artistic life. But I'm so busy that I… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
"Triennale in the City" is a scheme that is of priority for the sponsoring local government. For many local governments, revitalization is… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with… — David Dixon Copy Share Image
You've got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don't do that, you're doing a disservice to the audience,… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature,… — Zadie Smith 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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