You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
Sometimes nothing is the best thing to say and often the best thing to do.
It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.
Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn't dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth.
It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.
Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend. He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.
And if sometimes, late at night in bed, I questioned whether or not I truly was insane, I told myself that it didn't matter. I was too happy to care.
Love is a gamble and sometimes it hurts, but whether you win or lose being in love is a beautiful thing.
And that's what makes you angry. What makes you hate. You don't want to believe that sometimes bad things happen just because they do.
Sometimes we place faith in the wrong people for the right reasons. We're too blind to their faults, and they're too blind to appreciate us. —Brighton Hayes
Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.
Walking’s a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too.
Sometimes you had a better shot with a jury, that body of ones “peers” who make decisions with their emotional brains; especially if your client was guilty.
Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
Sometimes the grass gets mowed at the house where the writer lives.
