Famous Quotes & Sayings

Branford Marsalis

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

Brad Renfro

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

Brad Pitt

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

Brad Pitt

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

Bonnie McKee

Every time I work with Dr. Luke I learn something new. He's kind of like the Andy Warhol of pop music, where he mass produces his art but it always still has heart and always still has an emotional thread to it. I think he's really a genius and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with him.

Bonnie Raitt

The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

Bonnie Raitt

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

Bonnie Raitt

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

Bonnie Raitt

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

Bono

The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

Bono

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.

Bono

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

Bono

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Barry Eisler

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

Barry Eisler

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Barry Humphries

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

Barry Hannah

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

Barry Goldwater

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barbara Coloroso

Odors from decaying food wafting through the air when the door is opened, colorful mold growing between a wet gym uniform and thedamp carpet underneath, and the complete supply of bath towels scattered throughout the bedroom can become wonderful opportunities to help your teenager learn once again that the art of living in a community requires compromise, negotiation, and consensus.

Arthur Smith

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

Arthur Smith

I've always been interested in art.

Arthur Symons

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

Arthur Symons

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

Arthur Symons

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Arthur Schopenhauer

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.