I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
H. R. Giger
WorkArtEleganceLineThingsCurve
Americans have perfected the art of reducing complicated truths into formulas and products. We're desperate for instant, visible, measurable ways of knowing God, instead of trusting that it's complicated and a mystery.
Mike Yaconelli
GodArtMysteryComplicatedKnowing
Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.
Derek Sivers
MusicArtEasyAttentionMarketing
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S Truman
LifeArtCriticismJustParasitic
A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.
John Cotton Dana
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The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
Britt Daniel
ArtIndustrial RevolutionRevolution
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
Walter Pater
ArtQualityMomentsYouNothing
Growing up in a traditional environment, I was taught the importance of art, how it's connected to the soul, how it makes a human being. This made me understand and cherish American art forms.
Michael Horse
ArtSoulMeGrowing UpAmerican
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
Malik Bendjelloul
ArtDetroitNowhereModernAway
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost
LifeArtCareTake CareHorseSell
I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
Adam Hughes
WorkWomenCharacterArtDecision
The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.
Julia Child
ArtLearnHobbyNewMatterBecome
I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.
Joe Gebbia
WorkScienceArtJobAmazingThink
I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.
Christian Marclay
TimeArtCultureAmericanAdmire
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard
BeautifulArtProcessMarbleStatue
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Robert Musil
LifeArtLayerBareStrips
There is a method to the madness of James Patterson's success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience.
Ashwin Sanghi
LearningSuccessOpportunityArtMe
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
Paddy Chayefsky
WorkArtWritingThinkThinkingSay
First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.
Spike Lee
ArtMoneyWorldFirstBigFilm
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
Hale White
LifeArtDoingDebateAlwaysLies
In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
MusicArtPeopleYouKnowHollywood
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
Diana Gabaldon
ScienceGreatArtChaosAbilityOut
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art.
Harvey Pekar
GreatTimeArtThinkingGeneration
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
ArtDeathMeProudDiePoor
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