Kate Christensen Quotes

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

Kate Christensen

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• CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Peace
  • Technology
  • Inspiration

• I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Art
  • Business
  • Parents

• The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Way
  • Looking

• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration
  • Songs

• My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Inspiration
  • Evolution
  • Flow

• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Art
  • May
  • Dream

• I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Trying
  • Art
  • High

• I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Inspiration

• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Table

• Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Literature
  • Inspiration
  • Books

• Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Game

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Looking

• I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Played

• There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Today
  • Question
  • Value

• I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity
  • Emotions

• As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better--but you keep working anyway.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Remains

• I usually work with artists only, so I do my research on them first, then I listen to their previous material and watch interviews they did. That way, I could get a wider idea of where they come from and what their taste in music is.

  

  Claudia Brant
  • Music
  • Artists
  • Taste

• Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Heart

• If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Work
  • Music
  • Value

• The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Inspiration
  • Artists
  • Female