Quotes of: Visual-arts Keyword

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

Tre Cool

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his...

Dept. of Speculation

When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high a...

Patrick Stump

In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after...

The Art Spirit

And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a degree that many of today’s public artists do away with the product as an issue, and make public debate the contents of their art. In doing so...

How to Like Everything: A Utopia

The title of this Chautauqua is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," not "Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing," and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen. Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not ...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Keep music and art alive in our schools because the greatness of a country is not measured by wars that are won, by territory annexed or even the size of a deficit. It is measured by the beauty of the art work by talented hands, the sounds of the mus...

Clarrissa Lee Moon

A confident decision makes a lasting goal.

Dragonflame: Tap Into Your Reservoir of Power Using Talismans, Manifestation, and Visualization

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

The Elements of Typographic Style

Fort somehow turned the symbol of nerdiness into a visual aphrodisiac—Spanish fly in the form of solid black frames.

To the Fifth Power

We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.

Glen Duncan

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

Richard Armitage

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

Siri Hustvedt

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.

Sadie Jones

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

Stacy Keach

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

Lee Strobel

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

Mary Karr

Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together.

Robert Stack

I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world.

Rob Zombie