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Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career.

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.

Country Music is thriving on the talent and creativity of an outstanding group of artists and they are well represented with our nominees, ... These talented performers, musicians, songwriters and producers demonstrate the artistic depth and creativity driving the burgeoning growth of our format. It is an exciting time for Country Music and the 2005 CMA Awards will definitely reflect that in November.

Dumas has commanded the fashion community like no other. He is erudite, artistic and wise, but somehow also a great business manager.

Each has contributed mightily to the creative and artistic community, having achieved unprecedented milestones. They have raised the standard of music-making to a new level.

I've been talking to Paul (Pierce, the Springer's artistic director) for six years.

The work he did on 'Murder Book' was visually stunning. He sees things in a different way, a more artistic and original way, in everything from the camera angles he chooses to the way scenes are lit. It feels unique and very distinctive.

The same theme runs throughout: They're playing one thing too much, ... Parents think their child is wasted up if they're not playing something all the time. What people have to realize is, with the exception of the artistic sports like gymnastics and figure skating, you don't have to specialize at a very young age to be good at it later.

I've told Jim that our commitment to him is for as long as he was alive, which I hope is a long time. We want Jimmy to conduct as much as he is able and willing to do so here. I think the Met is the luckiest opera house in the world to have him as its music director and I hope that he will be at the center of its artistic life for the foreseeable future. It would be a terrible blow for me and my plans if he was not here.

It was an unprecedented archaeological find for a single artist. I don't think there's ever been a more self-documented artistic life.

These seven paintings are unique. They represent the result of the combined efforts of many club members, who worked on each of the paintings for 10 minutes, adding their individual artistic touches.

These weren't unforced errors; these were pure winners, ... This was artistic play. You had to think tactics out there. You had to have guts out there.

The snowflakes that grace us at Christmastime typify the artistic beauty that bestows joy on all ages but, like an acid, evolution corrodes this inborn appreciation of beauty and falsely trains children to view themselves as mere animals no more worthy than dogs or cats.

The style of the decoration is unique, not so much from an artistic point of view, but for the subject and the colors used.

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

I've always had agriculture in my blood. And I've always wanted to do something artistic. I've never been able to draw or paint. But with bonsai I did it. This is what I'm good at. I like the artistic element and the teaching element.

I wanted to do something artistic with my life but I didn't think I wanted to be an actor, so I went to university and majored in English literature.

Scientific images are very artistic, and we wanted to present the artistic merit of science.

Sarah joined a group of art students who petitioned the administration to find places in the expanded school building that were appropriate for artistic expression.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

A fantasy of mine is to be tempted by the devil with a miraculous machine, a machine that could be hooked up to my brain and instantly produce finished art from the images in my mind. I'm sure it's the devil who'd have such a device, because it would devour the artistic soul, or half of it anyway.

Now it is the last party to share the friendship Ballet Company of Opera de Paris is the last bouquet we present to China. Because of the company's high reputation of its artistic style and professionalism in the world as well as its long history and powerful artistic vitality, it is the ideal representative to bring down the curtain of Year of France,

are much more artistic and vibrant now than the cinema.

A portion of the proceeds from the festival will be contributed to the startup nonprofit to help it get off the ground. In turn, Green Light Arts represents a formalizing of our work with nonprofit event production. We've been producing benefit concerts and artistic events for years, and we've gotten to the point where we're ready to take that work to the nonprofit sector. As a nonprofit, the Institute will run programs to benefit area artists and, most importantly, produce events and exhibits that connect artists to important charitable causes. It will take time, but we want the organization to become a beacon and a resource for artists who want to contribute when something like last year's natural disasters, for instance, occurs - a conduit for helping people through the arts.

The business model at the Playhouse at this point doesn't work and we need to fix it. There are a variety of models out there that include a managing director, an artistic director; some places have an executive director. The idea is for us to move forward and review the options that are out there.

August's accomplishments are unsurpassed - to me, the only writer to come close is Shakespeare, ... He has been the epitome of American theater for the last 23 years. He's defined it. His plays not only serve an artistic purpose, but they also serve a social purpose because they look at ourselves as Americans.

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

This is probably New England's biggest artistic tradition for most of the Colonial period.

This exhibition has been many years in the making and we are pleased to present this beautiful and stimulating body of work to a broad national audience. Looking at all of the photographs in the exhibition, I am still struck by the diversity of artistic expressions to the form, atmosphere and symbolism of the garden.

This is a magnificent initiative because it is very important to build and enlarge the links between Americans and Europeans, ... Through cultural and artistic links, people can discover one another's attractions.

Although it depends very much on how an object is presented and interpreted, it is conceivable that some people may interpret air-sickness bags in an artistic way.

This pattern is not merely about new applications. It's about a revolution in how we create, share and refine anything that can be digitally encoded -- be it news and information, artistic forms, scientific breakthroughs, personal communications, economic transactions, and, yes, even software. This is not Web 2.0. It's World 2.0.

This is truly a remarkable evening where artistic achievements are honored, talents are recognized and future aspirations are encouraged.

They're getting used to it. I think fear is slowly turning into pride: I think they were quite perturbed in the beginning, but they're coming round to it. I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid.

All my life I have been in love with film and music, and this feels like the best opportunity I have ever had to work with a fusion of the two artistic mediums,

Accessibility to artistic experiences is key, particularly for our young people, if we hope to build a creative, innovative, internationally competitive society ready to face the world, ... We are pleased to be a major partner of this important international gathering of individuals who all share a great thirst and an enormous passion for the arts and young people.

It seems to be a prudent thing to do to look at alternatives if in fact the ground zero site is not going to work out, ... The Drawing Center, like any cultural institution, stands for artistic freedom.

It's artistic and I know people who do film.

It really is a remarkable collection. Because Harvard began collecting so early, on so many levels, it can trace the full range of Degas' artistic interests in a way that few other museums can match.

It's a little bigger this year. I think the teachers are getting more involved and are encouraging their artistic students. So that's why they're here.

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.

For me, James has become much more than an artist doing a piece. He's the kind of guy who when you hire him to do an artistic piece like that wall system, you do it together, but then he's hanging around the office, so you ask his opinion on everything.

It's time to put out an All Points Bulletin on Sylvester Stallone. Not for artistic crimes but for so grossly abusing his license to pander.

It's not easy to retain an artistic passion under those conditions.

It's a problem around the world, but it's particularly bad in Latin America. Pirated goods are freely available throughout the region, and it's killing legitimate jobs and stifling artistic creation.

Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

The notion of artistic responsibility begs questions with no satisfactory conclusions, the most inevitable and ineffectual being that we should just keep thinking and talking about it, given that the alternative - a governmental body monitoring the movies we make and see - is unacceptable.

Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.

The basic artistic guideline of the show is to be observational and find the humor in real life, so it's good to be from a real place.

It's certainly more than a technological activity, although we instrument designers certainly use electronic technology as a design tool. But I wouldn't call it an artistic activity. We're toolmakers. Making tools is a craft, maybe even a high craft. I'd say that we are craftsmen rather than artists.

It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste.

It's a neat thing to have the student company create artistic situations where they can share in the creation of the project all around. We put them in contact with adult mentors and help them to discover their own abilities and to give them as many opportunities as possible.

I've had a lot of people say to me after the film, to my surprise, 'Thank you for making it. It's made a social impression, and that social impression to me is the aftermath of an artistic impression, and so much more important.

I want to be making records for years and years, and I think to have major commercial success and maintain your artistic credibility is difficult.

It used to be that his movies made too much money, ... But now he's made a movie that made almost no money at all. So this was a chance to reward him for his artistic endeavors. And still they said, 'No, it's not happening.'

They are in touch with some part of the child in them, which is where artistic endeavors really kind of live. You can get back to that child state of imagining what can't be. I think we go a long way toward making the first step in good creative and good artistic work.

Nothing that would be as artistic as any of the four restaurants I have in the city. If I was to do anything in Las Vegas, for instance, it would have to be... idiot-proof. And I still haven't decided if I'm capable of that.

It's really a presentation of life, as it was at that moment, in a really artistic way. Everything was double-sourced. George was determined to do this as a journalist.

Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

A personality that has contributed, in far away and difficult years, to spread and popularize in Italy the extraordinary artistic strength of jazz.

The interest from the artistic community to be involved this year really demonstrates the excitement about the CMA Awards and overall appeal and universal quality of the format,

I intend to honor its great traditions and its loyal audience while hopefully arriving at the right formula of exciting new artistic initiative that will fill its seats well into the future.

Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in a diverse and democratic world.

If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.

I had the great luck to grow up, together with two sisters, in a town that combined in a unique way artistic and industrious activities.

If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.

If we want to go global, the focus has to be on the quality. It's a trial-and-error process whose end-result is an artistic creation of refined quality. Each item, no matter whether it's for collection or personal use, has to be perfect.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

I have real dilemmas at times in trying to understand what I really think about the things that are in films and how people respond to them. I flip back and forth from going, "It's a slice of life. This happens in life. A film is an artistic venture. It's expressing life, so why not?

In addition to fulfilling our artistic needs, the new premises would also provide the public with greater access to the Company, our education activities and our archive. We have in this proposal the opportunity to turn Rambert into a national resource centre.

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

Because Maine is such a rural state, residents often do not have the same access to the arts that people in more urban areas might. Grants awarded by the NEA allow entities throughout Maine to showcase various artistic endeavors to communities throughout the state.

Christopher Guthrie (an actor who appears in many Know Theatre productions) has come aboard as artistic associate. He is going to be assisting me in terms of how we are going to keep this place programmed.

By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!

But it is also so exciting, because it allows us to really address the fundamental artistic direction of the orchestra for the coming years.

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

Becoming artistic director at L.A. Opera feels less like a major change in my life there than a kind of upgrading,

He's a man of immense artistic talents masquerading as a down-home boy,

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'

I am pleasantly surprised at the wealth of artistic talent that has had a connection to South Jersey, either historic or present day. But I am even more surprised that we continue to learn of more such artists and entertainers every year. Any region of any state would be proud to be associated with artists of such stature.

I believe in this community and its artistic roots, and (I) want to be part of an organization that makes a difference in the lives of residents and artists.

I don't make plans. All my life, one artistic impulse has simply led me to another.

I do, however, appreciate working with a degree of artistic liberty. Sometimes it's required.

I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film.

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

When you'd buy vinyl, you'd have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you'd read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that went with it.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.