Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Campbell Bower

I think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It's like a skin-toned transfer, and then all the make-up artist has to do is airbrush over it to blend it into the skin. There's nothing like that. At the moment, you literally have to go red and get it to skin color, which takes forever.

John Updike

I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

I think that it is wrong. I haven't said this one time in 21 years of prosecuting, but I guarantee the appellate court is going to reverse it. It's the worst opinion I've seen - it has no basis in law. All he's doing is setting up an artificial roadblock in our attempt to bring her to justice. He is a judge, so I am not going to say anything disrespectful.

Justin Chon

I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.

It is important for us to do everything right and to do it well. We want to do this in a way that benefits students, and if we do this, the folks in Arts and Sciences will support our efforts.

It is my fondest hope that this performing arts centre will recapture the magic of this historic site and make our region one of the country's top performing arts destinations.

P. J. O'Rourke

Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

Last year in the English Language Arts (portion of the test), Athens was one point away from getting an A,

Laura Lee and I wanted to participate in the restoration of downtown in some way, so we looked at opportunities, coupled with our love for art. We call it a museum/ hotel, because we're not just using art to decorate; it's truly a museum. It will be free to the public.

I was working as an art and tech researcher in '84. At that time there had been a small government program of assistance for artists for at least three or four years. I was working with Super 8 film then. And video in '85 and public radio in the early '80s.

Peter Capaldi

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

Ryan Potter

Martial arts is a life journey. One of the things my teacher taught me a long time ago was that everyone's path to the mastery of a certain system is different. Some people's path is a very direct route, where others might wind back and forth if you are injured or something.

Marshall had an excellent surface. The artificial surfaces now are as good or better than grass.

Vicki Baum

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings

Terry Teachout

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.

Limestone is porous, it transmits moisture. When you create an artificial bed like I'm describing, you sort of duplicate that kind of environment.

Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse

Cyril Connolly

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once

Jonathan Safran Foer

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I was very interested in art and art history. I probably would have pursued that somehow - working in a gallery or an auction house.

Len Cariou

I was in Canada running the Manitoba Theatre Centre as artistic director and I had written to Mr. Prince and asked him if he would give me his stage manager copy of the musical 'Company,' which I was going to do in my season there, ... He said, 'Yes,' and then said, 'By the way, Stephen's written you a musical and I'm going to send you the book.'

Philippe Petit

I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.

I think if you were seeking a name for the college of arts and sciences ... you really couldn't imagine a better name than the name of Thomas Harriot. There, you have this renaissance man, somebody who wouldn't have recognized the boundary between the arts and the sciences.

Grimes

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

It fits in with art curriculum under art careers because they need to know that there really is money in the art field, in fine arts. They see a direct, real world correlation between doing art and marketing art. I think that's important for the art field.

I think satire is a beautiful art and I'm still working at it. To me, it's more valid than straight news reporting.

Charlie Cook

I think people have a sense that right now Democrats are completely powerless in Washington, that they're just sort of bystanders. But there's a danger of Democrats' looking always like they are carping. It's important for them to articulate some kind of vision.

I think people can spend a little too much time chasing their tail. They worry too much about small details, many times artists push the output of their printers. They question, 'Why can't the quality be better?' Unfortunately, cost and production often limit their abilities.

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

I think Rob really has an incredible breadth of experience and sort of touches all the bases that the School of Art is involved with. He understands the life of a studio artist, the ambitions of young artists and what they do when they get out of school. He's a terrific writer, and I think it's a great appointment.

I think punting this issue to the Arts Commission is the fairest way of doing this at this point,