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Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what cons... ALEX TABARROK In Lake Charles, the United Way was a big contributor to their system. The school board here talked ...
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FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER If you could headline there, regardless of whether you sold out, it was just a real milestone. It me...
SHAUN COOPER My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their id...
JACOB EPSTEIN
The first house I bought was a little Spanish bungalow on Clinton Street in West Hollywood, right be... ELLEN DEGENERES It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club....
ELMER BERNSTEIN There has never been a gallery here for me to show my work. I show all over the country, and I've ne...
LUCY SILLIMAN The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author...
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I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a ... GISELE BUNDCHEN The gallery show is our showcase. Being an artist is a lonely lot. You work in isolation a lot ... s...
GAIL EDMONDS
I had just returned to Woodstock from the Midwest - from my father's funeral. The previous week had ... BOB DYLAN
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was othe...
WARREN G He was in good spirits when I spoke to him this morning. You could see that there was a little bit o...
CRAIG RIVET Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just...
CHOIRE SICHA It quickly became apparent that to Mr. K, there was no such thing as an untalented kid—just a kid ...
JOANNE LIPMAN AND MELANIE KUPCHYNSKY
We'll turn the lights off, we'll turn them on. There's a few boxes on stage and you act. There's not... CHRIS MARTIN There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It ...
GRAHAM COXON What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to lea...
CHARLES DUTTON
I was a Fine Art major. You do a bit of everything until the final year, when you specialise. I did ... TIMOTHY OLYPHANT
I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever... CHARLES BUKOWSKI
You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emoti... HARRY STYLES
My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were nev... DOROTHY ALLISON Fate.
She'd never been a big beliver in things like that, had always believed that solid decisi...
BELLA ANDRE They are not the glue or the missing piece to your puzzle. They are just an outsider, an observer, a...
LAURYN MOSLEY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missi...
VICTORIA AZARENKA If you were lucky, you could delegate that kind of work away. But if not, and you couldn't get at th...
CURTIS CHONG As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & E...
JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER
That was the magical thing about the Seventies: artists ruled. Because films were relatively low-bud... SISSY SPACEK
You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer ... WAYLON JENNINGS
I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled ... GARY WRIGHT
It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The stree... BARBARA EHRENREICH The most important lesson I took from Miles was his certainty as an artist. He was criticized in a l...
CHICK COREA
Well, I was more ugly. It's true. If God had come down and said, 'The three of you sign a contract n... DUSTIN HOFFMAN What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to...
CHARLES S. DUTTON
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art ... SETH GODIN
I think what you saw out there on the football field was an individual who really just loved the gam... JERRY RICE The greatest work of art created first by god and then by man, is the creation of life. The whole pr...
BETHANY JANE ANDREWS HOEY You have to, that was a conversation between Mike and I, that we had to make the money work for both...
DOUG MACLEAN
The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period... JAMES FRANCO There are a huge amount of girls out there who want to play a contact sport, who play powder puff fo...
KAREN FALANA At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very ...
JASPER JOHNS I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, ......
BERNARD HOPKINS
[Bush also defended the] Mission Accomplished ... People make a big deal out of it. It was not a mis... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off ...
DAVID RAMSEY
The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.... G.K. CHESTERTON This was our first 4,000-meter race of the season, and that showed a little. I saw a lot of positive...
BILL MARTENS
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around... STEVEN SPIELBERG I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real sci...
LALLA WARD
I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well drea... KEVIN COSTNER The Depression was remarkable because you had nothing, and the salaries, when you got a job, were ve...
NORMAN LLOYD We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought ev...
BRENDAN BAYLISS Tanner got routinely left out of surveys of American art. It was really in the 1980s that people rea...
ELEANOR HARVEY You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any w...
BILL VIOLA
I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I f... DOMINIC MONAGHAN A lot of people just stumble in and they're not aware of what they're looking at. When they find out...
ERICA TERMAN You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally impor...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL
The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA
Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energ... DAVID NICHOLLS The Black and White Ball was a work of performance art. It was a work that was every bit as importan...
DEBORAH DAVIS
Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for ... JOHN RIDLEY It could be hectic sometimes when you're being an artist and running a label at the same time. B...
MISSY ELLIOTT A chignon is an elegant twist on the ponytail and perfect for formal occasions. But it's also an eas...
DANTE PRONIO
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching ... J. G. BALLARD
That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make yo... KRISTIN HANNAH As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a ...
JASON ALDEAN
This was no longer art: it even destroyed the harmony of the portrait itself. They were alive, they ... NIKOLAI GOGOL One of the properties on the list last year sold. And there was another sale just of land that was l...
JOYCE REY I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep prod...
GEDDY LEE
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES It was a joy-of-celebration piece, and the first time I put it out at a show, it sold, ... I never h...
JOAN RANKIN
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it... JOSEF ALBERS I was never a knucklehead off the field. I was a person who abided by the rules and had been an upst...
A.J. NICHOLSON You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You ...
LARS VON TRIER So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the trad...
ROBERT MORRIS
Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of ... JOHN HENCH
We just thought that Freddie's blueprint for 'Rhapsody' was intriguing and original, and worthy of w... BRIAN MAY
There were a lot of years that I was trying to do things that other people wanted me to do. But you ... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs...
GRACE LEE BOGGS There was some wariness. They were telling us we had a job but not a plane. How does that work? Then...
DENNIS MILLS
With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move i... KATE CHRISTENSEN
There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back ... ZACH GALIFIANAKIS
Style is a big part of my life. I used to work in retail before I was an artist; a lot of people did... BJ THE CHICAGO KID
Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put... WIM WENDERS The fishermen that did work them for a couple days before we had to close them down for red tide sai...
DAVID HEIL Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art -- something tha...
MASHA GESSEN In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but ...
DON DRYSDALE Honestly, there was some discussion on our coaching staff as to who really should continue being the...
MIKE HOLMGREN It was a system that was wide open to fraud. All you had to do was call FEMA on the telephone and li...
GREGORY KUTZ It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sin...
DICK GREGORY
The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present ... JR
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS
I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel ... LIBBA BRAY I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your...
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual ...
JOHN W. DIXON
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery ... EZRA POUND
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n... 
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. 
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before... 
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. 
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l... 
He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope. 
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. 
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th... 
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ... 
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. 
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c... 
The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. 
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. 
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but... 
Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens. 
How blessings brighten as they take their flight. 
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a... 
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. 
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called... 
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as... 
The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass... 
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick...... 
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa... 
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. 
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan... 
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. 
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe... 
The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin... 
كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از... 
You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h... 
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig... 
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. 
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. 
The art of creation is older than the art of killing. 
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. 
For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress. 
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i... 
For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope... 
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk... 
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ... 
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag... 
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit... 
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings. 
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. 
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. 
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. 
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse... 
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a... 
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. 
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. 
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. 
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu... 
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u... 
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life. 
The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ... 