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I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconst...
FRED FRITH In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I estab...
TORSTEN WIESEL![]()
Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.
JULIA GLASS![]()
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Barak...
AUGUST WILSON My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.
CHARLES GWATHMEY![]()
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact m...
JOSEF ALBERS Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.
MICHAEL IAN BLACK![]()
And just as I start to move past him, my hip accidentally rubs against his, and his face is so close...
ALYSON NOEL After a month or so, the novelty began to wear off. So I, like, put up a poll to see who the next on...
IAN SPECTOR I adapt to almost anything. The primary condition is that one of my elementary rights be respected �...
MARIANA FULGER I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for severa...
KAREN TRAVISS![]()
I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connect...
RAINBOW ROWELL Thus the perception of the infinite is somehow prior in me to the perception of the finite, that is,...
RENé DESCARTES I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into langu...
MARIANNE WIGGINS![]()
For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind ...
BILL PLYMPTON![]()
So here is another law, one of my favourite If I become famous the stupidy will end one for all. It'...
DEYTH BANGER![]()
I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage.
KID CUDI So, now I am left with two unfortunate facts in my life. Mondays are creepy Chuck day, and even my m...
LINDSAY DETWILER![]()
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thoug...
IAN ANDERSON Working in the tranquil setting of my backyard is also highly motivational and inspirational. I also...
YOLONDA PELZ I call 2015 a year of deconstruction. I needed to deconstruct myself, my businesses, and find all of...
MICHELLE PHAN![]()
Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the v...
DAMIEN HIRST Yaam hondaya.......... Gos eem hondaya...........Lowa eththe yaam saha aeem pamanai....Neewith yanna...
I LEARNED THIS FROM ONE OF MY EVERLOVING FRIENDS![]()
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ...
BEVERLY SILLS A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ...
LIONEL TRILLING Am I supposed to vote for someone I think does not represent my interests, my principles, or the int...
CAMILLO MAC BICA We all used to go down to watch Chuck Thome hit the ball. Then, around 1940, his son Art turned into...
JOE STOWELL I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed m...
MARY CASSATT My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the ne...
SELLAPAN RAMANATHAN Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-c...
BARBARA JANUSZKIEWICZ![]()
If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
MARILYN MONROE My behavioural problems are non-existent because all my freakiness, I guess, is manifested in a visu...
PETE BURNS I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetical sense and ...
GOPAKUMAR R My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT![]()
Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibl...
JENNA MORASCA![]()
I wish that one of these days somebody would learn to do [my art] so it doesn't die where it is.
FRANK SINATRA I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the ...
MOLLY CRABAPPLE My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don...
JONATHAN LETHEM![]()
I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make...
DAVID LEVITHAN![]()
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 paint...
KEITH HARING I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
NAJIB MIKATI So, it makes sense that perception might be more influenced by language in the right half of the vis...
AUBREY GILBERT Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
NATE POWELL One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed ...
CHUCK ZITO In light of my upcoming marathon I feel I need more time to recover and prepare without further inte...
JON BROWN![]()
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship witho...
EDVARD MUNCH When I do weight-loss education or diabetes education I really emphasize portion size. Measure thing...
JENNY GARDNER To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and f...
CHRIS BURKE![]()
When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I ...
DAVID CASSIDY My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of diff...
TIM CURRY![]()
The only way to clamp down on my energy is to erase my emotions, and so I fold them each away, one b...
MARIE LU I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about...
DEBORAH EISENBERG The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worshi...
EUGENE H. PETERSON I was so surprised. I didn't even have any of my art here.
EMMA SMITH My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
GEORG SOLTI I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamer...
ROY ORBISON What the government gave is a pittance. To reconstruct my home I need about 200,000 rupees. Now beca...
ABDUL RASHID teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.
JAY DUPLASS My perception is my reality, strength and weakness! All I need to do is correct it if when required!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards...
BARBARA KRUGER In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn...
BING GORDON Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just...
SPOKEN REASONS Your country is very close to my heart now. I, for one, will never forget the compassion expressed b...
FRANK MCKENNA![]()
I definitely don't look my age, ... So I actively look for roles that will help people change their ...
ELIJAH WOOD My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my da...
ARI MILLEN I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few...
CALISTA FLOCKHART The drive, the ambition, the art; it all comes to me when I close my eyes and think about the sacrif...
FORREST CURRAN So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the...
BRIAN DE PALMA![]()
So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my sleep.
PABLO NERUDA![]()
I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I saw Ryan (Newman) coming up in my mirror and I've seen a lot of cars behind me in practices, but I...
WAYNE TAYLOR![]()
I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each othe...
TAYLOR SWIFT![]()
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he d...
DAVID ROCKEFELLER I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
YURI MILNER I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception ab...
SHAHID KAPOOR![]()
When I say to the Moment flying;
'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!'
Then bind me in thy...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE![]()
My angel-boy is close now, as in five-feet-away close. There's no way I'm going to burst into song i...
LAUREN MYRACLE I should say that I was a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ear...
FRITZ LANG![]()
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and gi...
ELI WHITNEY![]()
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perf...
STEVE PREFONTAINE![]()
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
JIMI HENDRIX![]()
Mind power is my art …… so bring the canvas of your mind closer and I will create a masterpiece.
STEPHEN RICHARDS![]()
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an...
JERRY SALTZ I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and prioriti...
S. TRUETT CATHY I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
GUSTAVE COURBET![]()
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if...
OSCAR WILDE I have resigned from MSG (Madison Square Garden Network) and have been let go from NBC. I fully unde...
MARV ALBERT![]()
It's the first time I got dumped in my life. I think the one thing I would point to as a primary rea...
CHARLIE SHEEN Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own child...
DANIEL PINKWATER![]()
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, an...
JOAN DIDION![]()
I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their ...
ELIJAH WOOD Your perception is your reality. My perception is my reality. But the real truth is something else!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Wh...
DAVID GREGORY![]()
There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.
CRISS JAMI pudding....
DALLY SALAD Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and strea...
GEORGE LINLEY I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associate...
PAUL NURSE![]()
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all thi...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY
FRED FRITH In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I estab...
TORSTEN WIESEL
Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. JULIA GLASS
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Barak... AUGUST WILSON My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.
CHARLES GWATHMEY
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact m... JOSEF ALBERS Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.
MICHAEL IAN BLACK
And just as I start to move past him, my hip accidentally rubs against his, and his face is so close... ALYSON NOEL After a month or so, the novelty began to wear off. So I, like, put up a poll to see who the next on...
IAN SPECTOR I adapt to almost anything. The primary condition is that one of my elementary rights be respected �...
MARIANA FULGER I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for severa...
KAREN TRAVISS
I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connect... RAINBOW ROWELL Thus the perception of the infinite is somehow prior in me to the perception of the finite, that is,...
RENé DESCARTES I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into langu...
MARIANNE WIGGINS
For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind ... BILL PLYMPTON
So here is another law, one of my favourite If I become famous the stupidy will end one for all. It'... DEYTH BANGER
I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage. KID CUDI So, now I am left with two unfortunate facts in my life. Mondays are creepy Chuck day, and even my m...
LINDSAY DETWILER
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thoug... IAN ANDERSON Working in the tranquil setting of my backyard is also highly motivational and inspirational. I also...
YOLONDA PELZ I call 2015 a year of deconstruction. I needed to deconstruct myself, my businesses, and find all of...
MICHELLE PHAN
Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the v... DAMIEN HIRST Yaam hondaya.......... Gos eem hondaya...........Lowa eththe yaam saha aeem pamanai....Neewith yanna...
I LEARNED THIS FROM ONE OF MY EVERLOVING FRIENDS
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ... BEVERLY SILLS A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ...
LIONEL TRILLING Am I supposed to vote for someone I think does not represent my interests, my principles, or the int...
CAMILLO MAC BICA We all used to go down to watch Chuck Thome hit the ball. Then, around 1940, his son Art turned into...
JOE STOWELL I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed m...
MARY CASSATT My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the ne...
SELLAPAN RAMANATHAN Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-c...
BARBARA JANUSZKIEWICZ
If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein. MARILYN MONROE My behavioural problems are non-existent because all my freakiness, I guess, is manifested in a visu...
PETE BURNS I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetical sense and ...
GOPAKUMAR R My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT
Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibl... JENNA MORASCA
I wish that one of these days somebody would learn to do [my art] so it doesn't die where it is. FRANK SINATRA I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the ...
MOLLY CRABAPPLE My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don...
JONATHAN LETHEM
I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make... DAVID LEVITHAN
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 paint... KEITH HARING I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
NAJIB MIKATI So, it makes sense that perception might be more influenced by language in the right half of the vis...
AUBREY GILBERT Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
NATE POWELL One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed ...
CHUCK ZITO In light of my upcoming marathon I feel I need more time to recover and prepare without further inte...
JON BROWN
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship witho... EDVARD MUNCH When I do weight-loss education or diabetes education I really emphasize portion size. Measure thing...
JENNY GARDNER To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and f...
CHRIS BURKE
When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I ... DAVID CASSIDY My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of diff...
TIM CURRY
The only way to clamp down on my energy is to erase my emotions, and so I fold them each away, one b... MARIE LU I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about...
DEBORAH EISENBERG The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worshi...
EUGENE H. PETERSON I was so surprised. I didn't even have any of my art here.
EMMA SMITH My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
GEORG SOLTI I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamer...
ROY ORBISON What the government gave is a pittance. To reconstruct my home I need about 200,000 rupees. Now beca...
ABDUL RASHID teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.
JAY DUPLASS My perception is my reality, strength and weakness! All I need to do is correct it if when required!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards...
BARBARA KRUGER In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn...
BING GORDON Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just...
SPOKEN REASONS Your country is very close to my heart now. I, for one, will never forget the compassion expressed b...
FRANK MCKENNA
I definitely don't look my age, ... So I actively look for roles that will help people change their ... ELIJAH WOOD My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my da...
ARI MILLEN I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few...
CALISTA FLOCKHART The drive, the ambition, the art; it all comes to me when I close my eyes and think about the sacrif...
FORREST CURRAN So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the...
BRIAN DE PALMA
So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,so close that your eyes close with my sleep.
PABLO NERUDA
I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I saw Ryan (Newman) coming up in my mirror and I've seen a lot of cars behind me in practices, but I...
WAYNE TAYLOR
I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each othe... TAYLOR SWIFT
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he d... DAVID ROCKEFELLER I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
YURI MILNER I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception ab...
SHAHID KAPOOR
When I say to the Moment flying;'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!'
Then bind me in thy...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
My angel-boy is close now, as in five-feet-away close. There's no way I'm going to burst into song i... LAUREN MYRACLE I should say that I was a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ear...
FRITZ LANG
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and gi... ELI WHITNEY
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perf... STEVE PREFONTAINE
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. JIMI HENDRIX
Mind power is my art …… so bring the canvas of your mind closer and I will create a masterpiece. STEPHEN RICHARDS
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an... JERRY SALTZ I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and prioriti...
S. TRUETT CATHY I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
GUSTAVE COURBET
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if... OSCAR WILDE I have resigned from MSG (Madison Square Garden Network) and have been let go from NBC. I fully unde...
MARV ALBERT
It's the first time I got dumped in my life. I think the one thing I would point to as a primary rea... CHARLIE SHEEN Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own child...
DANIEL PINKWATER
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, an... JOAN DIDION
I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their ... ELIJAH WOOD Your perception is your reality. My perception is my reality. But the real truth is something else!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Wh...
DAVID GREGORY
There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists. CRISS JAMI pudding....
DALLY SALAD Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and strea...
GEORGE LINLEY I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associate...
PAUL NURSE
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all thi... NATASHA TRETHEWEY
Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that. 
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules. 
The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's ... 
As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line. 
Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. 
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, ... 
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. 
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. 
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. 
The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shal... 
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. 
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need ... 
What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome w... 
I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapo... 
Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance... 
I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected. 
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the othe... 
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. 
In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mista... 
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant th... 
Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident. 
Playing safe is only playing. 
Practice without improvement is meaningless. 
It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers. 