In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
. . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The world isn't all happy, shiny people, and great art doesn't come from vanilla. Great art comes from people with a point… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness:… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
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