
Art quotes:
- "A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is ..."
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Imagination is the eye of the soul. "
By: Joseph Joubert - "Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy ..."
By: Aaliyah - "As an author, you're usually responsible for both the creation and evolution of your characters, ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "I was one of those rare and fortunate writers who did not go through an ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "Most readers seemed to like the never-ending conflict, but politics is not sword and sorcery, ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "My parents might say that I started telling stories when I learned to talk and ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "The most annoying risk that I find associated with work-for-hire situations is somebody's always trying ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "Were I to decide that I didn't want to be a genre writer, or that ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "When done well, the shared universes are richer than their single-creator counterparts. "
By: Lynn Abbey - "When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "When I started out, I thought being a writer was all about writing. Writing is ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "Whenever I encounter an article that makes my ears wiggle, I give it a number, ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "Writing genre fantasy requires a few more research twists, most of them involving magic. By ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. "
By: Berenice Abbott - "What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a ..."
By: Berenice Abbott - "But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, ..."
By: John Abizaid - "But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for ..."
By: John Abizaid - "It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as ..."
By: John Abizaid - "It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni ..."
By: John Abizaid - "There are a lot of them who are participating but it is a greater challenge ..."
By: John Abizaid - "It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that ..."
By: Floyd Abrams - "So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing ..."
By: Floyd Abrams - "The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power ..."
By: Floyd Abrams - "The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast ..."
By: Floyd Abrams - "There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest ..."
By: Floyd Abrams - "Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. "
By: Dean Acheson - "I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful ..."
By: Lord Acton - "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is ..."
By: Lord Acton - "The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by ..."
By: Lord Acton - "I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while ..."
By: Ansel Adams - "In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on ..."
By: Ansel Adams
- "Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative ..."
By: Ansel Adams - "There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and ..."
By: Ansel Adams - "Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a ..."
By: Douglas Adams - "If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. ..."
By: Douglas Adams - "I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking ..."
By: Franklin P. Adams - "There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they ..."
By: Franklin P. Adams - "If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so ..."
By: Joey Adams - "Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, ..."
By: John Adams - "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of ..."
By: John Adams - "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. "
By: Scott Adams - "If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? ..."
By: Scott Adams - "In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It's called Karoshi. I don't want that ..."
By: Scott Adams - "Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look ..."
By: Scott Adams - "The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, ..."
By: Samuel Adams - "The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to ..."
By: Phillip Adams - "Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is ..."
By: Joseph Addison - "To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of ..."
By: Joseph Addison - "The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an ..."
By: Konrad Adenauer - "Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase ..."
By: Mortimer J. Adler - "It is important to the child to be admired and respected, shown consideration and courtesy-and ..."
By: Mortimer J. Adler - "Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than ..."
By: Mortimer J. Adler - "We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever ..."
By: Mortimer J. Adler - "Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "
By: Theodor Adorno - "Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "Every undistorted relationship, perhaps indeed the conciliation that is part of organic life itself, is ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. "
By: Theodor Adorno - "Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. "
By: Theodor Adorno - "Genuine things are those to which commodities and other means of exchange can be reduced, ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "Taste is the ability to keep in balance the contradiction in art between the made ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "The decay of giving is morrored in the distressing invention of gift-article, based on the ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "The ideology of cultural conservatism which sees enlightenment and art as simple antitheses is false, ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "The only decent marriage would be one allowing each partner to lead an independent life, ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. "
By: Theodor Adorno
- "The world is systematized horror, but therefore it is to do the world too much ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "They are down to earth like their zoological forbears, before they got up on their ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, ..."
By: Theodor Adorno - "And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the ..."
By: Aeschylus - "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls ..."
By: Aeschylus - "In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust ..."
By: Aeschylus - "There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the ..."
By: Aeschylus - "When a match has equal partners then I fear not. "
By: Aeschylus - "A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. "
By: Aesop - "Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating. "
By: Ben Affleck - "A friend - I was living with Matt Damon at the time - went in ..."
By: Casey Affleck - "But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate. "
By: Casey Affleck - "I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a ..."
By: Casey Affleck - "I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about ..."
By: Casey Affleck - "I'm not that smart. "
By: Casey Affleck - "My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear ..."
By: Casey Affleck - "They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned ..."
By: Casey Affleck - "I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking ..."
By: Christina Aguilera - "It's frustrating always being compared to Britney because we are two very different artists... We ..."
By: Christina Aguilera - "It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their ..."
By: Daniel Akaka - "And the veil, spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, to hid the feeling ..."
By: Mark Akenside - "Americans were inspired by the courage of Iraq citizens as they defied threats to there ..."
By: Todd Akin - "So part of my work was just an educational job of bringing congressmen up to ..."
By: Todd Akin - "Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since ..."
By: Todd Akin - "The arrival of the Pope to the birthplace of the first cathedral west of the ..."
By: Todd Akin - "The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion ..."
By: Todd Akin - "The same can be said of partial birth abortion, which is a horribly violent procedure ..."
By: Todd Akin - "Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about ..."
By: Jessica Alba - "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph ..."
By: Amos Bronson Alcott - "I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of ..."
By: Brian Aldiss - "I'm lucky that SFWA has such a short memory. I was always the Young Turk, ..."
By: Brian Aldiss - "Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. "
By: Brian Aldiss - "An artificial style of dance confected for 18th-century kings evolved into a popular American art ..."
By: Shana Alexander