“When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.” ArtArtistCultureArt IsAspectTraditionWesternChinaContemporaryPopular Culture Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that any artist who wants to create a grand narrative on a grand scale has to sort of parse out some of the smaller aspects of painting or the more mundane aspects of painting to others.” WantArtistBitsPracticePaintingAspectStudiosScalesNarrativePeterMundaneRubens Author:Kehinde Wiley
“While it may seem a little mundane, the material realities of realizing the painting actually have a lot to do with how you should read the painting. For example, we assume that what the model is wearing is what we found him in in the streets. No; in fact, a lot of what happens is that in Photoshop certain aspects are being heightened or diminished. There is no actual material truth in these paintings.” ShouldMayLittlesFactsRealitySeemsHappensCertainFoundRealizingStreetsExamplePaintingMaterialsModelsAspectAssumingMundanePhotoshop Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so in the act of identifying yourself, you're using others to get to that point. And so you're parsing out different aspects of different people in the world. You're choosing not only from America but increasingly globally different aspects of what's out there.” PeopleThinkingWorldArtDifferentSelfAmericaInterestingTypeArt IsAspectDifferent PeoplesReally InterestingIdentifyingPortraitureIdentifying Yourself Author:Kehinde Wiley
“If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.” IfsKnowsHumansAnswersInterestingBrainIdentityReadyConsciousAspectRaisesDefinitionsArguingHandleMapsBe YouTechnologicalVery InterestingNot ReadyHuman Brain Author:Edward Boyden
“The critiques I received from my father's community didn't actually have to do with any of the things I'd been afraid of - spiritual or cultural aspects - they were more annoyed that I'd killed off this character or those characters hadn't hooked up or I'd done an open ending and it didn't give them a sense of closure that they were expecting.” GivingDoneCharacterSpiritualFatherCommunityAspectExpectingCritiqueAnnoyedHookedClosure Author:Eden Robinson
“Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals and politics and anti-theology dismayed him. His 'monadology' which said that the true atoms of nature were unextended 'living mirrors,' was an imaginative and beautiful system, and even in many ways more modern than Epicurean atomism, than Epicurean atomism, but there was a reactionary aspect to it.” IfsWorldWaySaidBeautifulSimpleMoralModernAspectArgumentMirrorsComplexesAcceptedTheologyAtomsEntityImaginativeReactionariesIndestructibleDismayedEpicurean Author:Catherine Wilson
“A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco - and I think a lot of what's going on there is that the self-control areas of the brain are finally developed enough to be able to stop yourself from relapsing or just continuing. There is a maturational aspect to it as well.” ThinkingWellsEndsSelfEnoughAgeAbleBrainPercentAreasAspectAddictionExceptionSelf ControlContinuingTobaccoAge 30 Author:Maia Szalavitz
“I've never done a lead role in a film this big [like Doctor Strange], in a franchise this big. One of the reasons was, I wanted to know what the toy box was like. And it's just insane, the amount of facility that everyone gets, but the amount of artistry and craft that's brought to every aspect of filmmaking. I mean, you go to your first costume fitting and it's one of thirty. It's a myriad, but it's for a reason. There are so many incredible costumes in this.” KnowsFirstsMeanReasonDoneBigsWantedFilmRolesStrangeAmountAspectDoctorsIncrediblesBoxesInsaneCraftsThirtyToysFilmmakingCostumesFacilityFittingArtistry Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.” WritingActingCreationElementsAspectTreats Author:Meital Dohan
“One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in places - Washington, D.C., feeding the homeless, the hurting, going to broken boys and girls. So culturally I understood all different aspects of life - from extremely wealthy to extreme poverty, socioeconomic differences, ethnic differences.” DifferentGirlDifferencesHurtCitiesSituationBoysPovertyBrokenComfortableUnderstoodAspectStartingExtremesWealthyMinistryHomelessFeedingBoy And GirlAspects Of LifeInner CityExtreme Poverty Author:Paula White
“I canÂ’t think of any negative [aspects of working in the wrestling industry]. The positive are the money, the comradery, the prestige, the notoriety. A lot of pluses.” ThinkingI CanIndustryNegativeAspectWrestlingPrestigeNotorietyComradery Author:Ric Flair
“Of course, the muscular build of athletes is always a challenge for a designer, but my clothing's softness and comfort, which are central aspects of my stylistic vision, allow it to adapt to various physical builds effortlessly.” CoursesChallengesVisionComfortAspectAthleteVariousDesignerClothingsSoftness Author:Giorgio Armani
“8th grade I started writing my own songs. They weren't good songs or anything, but it was always the song writing aspect of things that was important to me, I always just wanted to create a song it seemed like.” WritingImportantWantedSongMy OwnAspectGrades Author:William Clark Green
“Donald Trump let the American public into every aspect of what it meant to be successful in America.” AmericaSuccessfulTrumpAspectBeing SuccessfulMeant To Be Author:Omarosa Manigault
“I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.” FeelsReasonFormAspectConnectionsPopsRootedPop MusicAspects Of Life Author:Vince Staples
“We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we treat each other - before we learn mathematics and computers and science in school, and languages and all of this, the basis of it: What is it to be a human? What responsibility do you have?” HumansSchoolLanguageResponsibilityProgressFrontsComputerAspectTreatsBasesMathematicsBasics Author:Michal Rovner
“There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect of nature.” CarAspectClaimsBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting.” WayAspectSingersOperaTheatricalPresentingStellaOpera SingersAdler Author:Robert Davi
“I remember [Patrick J. Adams] being in a particularly disillusioned place and really wanting your ambitions to be met with opportunity and not feeling like they were. It's all the more reason that I feel grateful to be able to stay connected and be in each other's lives. Obviously now you're in a very different place, and it's really nice to be able to look back on that and be reminded of how far we've come, at least in the opportunity aspect. The mental state aspect of it is a different story, I'm sure, but I always knew you would work.” FeelsLooksDifferentStatesReasonStoriesFeelingsAbleRememberOpportunityNiceMetsAmbitionAspectGratefulConnectedDifferent PlaceReally NiceDisillusionedHow Far We've Come Author:Zachary Quinto
“I would say auditioning was my real training ground. The technical aspects - like hitting marks and pacing yourself and preparing and dealing with the downtime - the first recurring role I had on 24 was probably the way I learned that stuff.” WayFirstsRealStuffRolesTrainingAspectMarkHittingPreparingRecurringPacingDowntime Author:Zachary Quinto
“David Ortiz is an icon. He is one of a kind. But we'll do our best job to replace the offensive aspect, however we can.” KindJobsAspectOffensiveIconsBest JobOne Of A Kind Author:Dave Dombrowski
“Manufacturing is still very important to us, but we are much more diversified state. And furthermore, anybody that says the steel mills are coming back to Youngstown is not telling the truth. They're not coming back. You could have some aspects of advanced manufacturing appear.” StillsImportantStatesAspectTelling The TruthSteelComing BackManufacturingMills Author:John Kasich
“The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World Summit on the Information Society only dealt with a small number of issues: ICTs and human rights (to some extent), ICTs and development (to some extent), infrastructure finance and Internet governance. Very large aspects of what might have been included in the "information society" were not really discussed.” WorldHumansHas BeensDifferentMightNumbersPracticeIssuesRightsInformationDevelopmentInternetConceptsAspectHuman RightsFinanceDifferent ThingsVagueMight Have BeenInfrastructureGovernanceSummitParticipantsSmall NumbersInformation SocietyIct Author:David Souter
“The daredevil aspect to what I did there is moving a monstrously big ship over a mountain in the jungle of Peru with 800 or 900 or so native people from the area. So that idea was wild but the way it was executed was prudent. Nobody was ever hurt and when it became clear that we had to be more secure with the posts that would hold the ship, I spent 12 days having a post built that would have withstood the force of 10 times the weight of my ship.” PeopleWayIdeasBigsMovingForceHurtClearMountainBuiltAreasAspectWeightShipsSecurePostsNativeJunglePrudentPeruDaredevil Author:Werner Herzog
“Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of like a table of contents to the Christian hope. They invite us to go into all the aspects of the heart of Jesus. Everything about them from the drama, the setting, the passion around them - I think the seven sayings of the cross are powerful.” ThinkingWantWritingHeartKindBookChristianPassionJesusPowerfulDramaAspectCrossesTablesSevenSettingSettingsSomedayInvitesChristian HopeTable Of Contents Author:Max Lucado
“My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a woman who hides in the attic and watches the Apocalypse, a cult whose members preserve themselves in huge formalin tubs waiting for the Second Coming, and so on.” StoriesRealityChristianWaitingWatchesHugeMembersAspectSeriesMythPreservesCultApocalypseAtticsTubs Author:Karin Tidbeck
“One of the unique aspects of the Bible is that it is primarily a story illustrated by teaching and not primarily teaching illustrated by story.” StoriesTeachingUniqueAspect Author:David Kim
“The colonial experience all Muslim countrieswent through may be a factor in the fight against Western domination, British, French or whatever. They were until recently largely rural societies with land owning governing elites in most of them. I think they are certainly moving toward urbanization and much more pluralistic political systems. In almost every Muslim country, that is occurring. Obviously they are increasing their involvement with non-Muslim societies. One peak aspect of this, of course, is the migration of Muslims into Europe.” ThinkingMayCountryMovingPoliticalFightingCoursesLandEuropeAspectWesternBritishFactorsElitesDominationInvolvementGoverningPolitical SystemsMigrationUrbanization Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“We don't save our soul and leave our emotions and our feelings and our body and all the rest of it out. That's just a way of talking that emphasizes the soul is so fundamental that we can, in some cases, treat it as the whole person because it actually is the thing that integrates all of these aspects of the self and makes them work together. Now, I don't think we can find a passage in the Bible that says that. We have to read and study how it addresses the soul, and we then see that it is the deepest, most vital part of the human self.” ThinkingWayHumansPersonsSoulSelfWholeFeelingsBodyTogetherEmotionTalkingCasesStudyAspectTreatsFundamentalsAddressesWorking TogetherPassagesIntegratingWhole PersonWay Of Talking Author:Dallas Willard
“Jon Hamm is incredibly good at playing people who have secrets and are hiding aspects of their personality, and obviously Don Draper had a lot of that.” PeopleSecretPersonalityAspectHiding Author:Greg Mottola
“I kind of like the ping-pong coach aspect; it somehow fits, and I don't know how.” KnowsKindKnow HowFitAspectCoachesPingPing Pong Author:Jeffrey Dean Morgan
“I think we all have those particular pieces of clothes that we really like, because it ages well, because it fits you well, because you feel comfortable, and you feel confident in those clothes. All those aspects of good design are what I'm interested in.” ThinkingFeelsWellsAgePiecesDesignParticularFitComfortableClothesAspectGood Design Author:Christophe Lemaire
“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.” PeopleShouldYearsLongTodayWantedPoorCitiesPovertyTenMountainAspectYears AgoIndiaAssumingForestsTribesBetter Off Author:Indira Gandhi
“It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our economic structure.” ThinkingLooksInterestingEconomicCollegeAspectStructureEverydayEducatedThinking Deeply Author:Bell Hooks
“Focus on creating really good music and a great live show before doing anything else. If you have these two things in place, the other aspects of the business are much easier and almost take care of themselves.” IfsTwoShowsCareFocusEasierCreatingAspectTake CareTwo Things Author:Ryan Merchant
“What I like about the Pleiadians is that they work and meet each person where they are in their own evolution. Every initiation, every process, is designed for the individual to meet an aspect of where they are within themselves.” PersonsIndividualProcessEvolutionAspectInitiation Author:Christine McCormick Day
“It's going to open up us to our galactic neighbors, to the energies and the life force energies that exist within the universes that we are all a part of - and they all are here, of course, supporting us in this transition for this aspect of our awakening. I think that is going to be a big shift.” ThinkingBigsUniverseCoursesEnergyForceAspectAwakeningNeighborTransition Author:Christine McCormick Day
“You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.” PersonsAspectResponsibleResponsible Person Author:Ann Patchett
“We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.” AbleCultureRecordsEffectsNegativeAspectWestPreservesIntrusion Author:Michael Snow
“If you are in a band or in any situation with other people there are obviously brilliant aspects to it, but there are also things that you start finding yourself tied to.” PeopleIfsSituationBandFindingsAspectBrilliantFinding YourselfTied Author:David Gilmour
“We talked about various aspects of what we wanted to talk about, Hillary [Clinton] and [Donald] Trump and down-ballot stuff, various issues. One of the things that it showed was you've got to use fear.” UseWantedStuffIssuesTrumpAspectClintonVariousBallots Author:Joss Whedon
“I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.” ThinkingFeelsMayPersonsDifferentSometimesStoriesHappensCertainEventsUniqueAspectSympatheticDifferent Life Author:Chath Piersath
“Mary's [Hamill] working from an outsider perspective and I'm working from an insider-outside perspective. In this case, it will bring an added dimension to the visual aspects of the work. Also the processes and approaches that I'm thinking are about learning. I'm playing it by ear to experiment and see what happens.” ThinkingHappensProcessCasesPerspectiveApproachAspectEarsExperimentsVisualsDimensionsMaryOutsidersInsiders Author:Chath Piersath
“I believe "human sexuality" is one of the most ridiculous aspects of being a human, and here I was, facing publications whose prevailing editorial slant sought to portray our basic rutting instincts as something "ennobling" and "empowering," to depict women who were fundamentally whores and predominantly unstable as "sex workers" and "goddesses."” BelieveHumansI BelieveSexAspectInstinctWorkersSexualityRidiculousEmpoweringGoddessPublicationUnstablePrevailingEditorials Author:Jim Goad
“In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country.” HumansCountryStatesOrderUnitedUnited StatesRightsCryAspectRegardHuman RightsYieldViolationCrowMoscowJim Crow Author:Gerald Horne
“There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.” FeelsKindCoursesMy OwnSpecialResourcesAspectContactNourishment Author:Leonard Cohen
“Wherever you go, whether it be a college campus or the New York Times or ABC News or Venezuela or Cuba or the former Soviet Union, it's amazing how the speech codes and the trying to shut up dissent is a defining aspect of the left because they believe so firmly in their utopian ideals that anyone who would disagree with that utopia is an enemy of the state, and they treat them as such.” TryingBelieveStatesLeftEnemyNew YorkCollegeSpeechNewsAspectIdealsTreatsUnionsFormerCodeDisagreeSovietShut UpSoviet UnionDefiningDissentUtopiaCubaNew York TimesCampusUtopianVenezuelaCollege Campus Author:Andrew Breitbart
“They have two aspects. One is that they're unpredictable, and that often rich and more affluent households are slow to spend the funds. The other thing about tax cuts is that they're redistributive. So they tend, naturally, to benefit those who pay tax.” TwoPayRichCuttingTaxesBenefitsAspectFundHouseholdUnpredictableTax CutsAffluent Author:Judy Woodruff
“Viewing that complex relationship one-sidedly from the aspect of manufacturing and the impact of Chinese imports on the United States makes sense from the point of view of the Rust Belt of the United States. It may even make sense as a political strategy for a candidate running for office.” MayStatesRunningPoliticalUnitedViewsUnited StatesOfficeAspectImpactStrategyComplexesPoint Of ViewChineseMake SenseCandidatesBeltsManufacturingRustImportsRunning For OfficeComplex Relationships Author:Judy Woodruff