Quotes of: Visual-arts Keyword

Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and fles...

Ellie Goulding

I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.

Eric Van Lustbader

I need not repeat familiar arguments about the waste of teachers' time, and the difficulties thrown in the way of English children trying to learn their own language; or the fact that nobody without a visual memory for words ever succeeds in spelling...

George Bernard Shaw

What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seei...

Twyla Tharp

I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.

Alexa Von Tobel

Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, yo...

Vik Muniz

The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then...

Vik Muniz

I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single clot...

Barbara Kruger

When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on differen...

The Weeknd

I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

Colleen Atwood

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

John Galliano

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Complete Works

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

Dead Men Don't Answer

The way to free your feelings is to simply feel them.

Dancing with Your Dragon: The Art of Loving Your Unlovable Self

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

Distraction

How we treat people is always our choice, and if we choose not to be respectful, it can come back to bite us.

On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

No decent art ever came out of self-pity.

Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

The Art of War