Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Rushkoff

This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment when we have the ability to step out of the story altogether. Renaissances are historical instances of widespread recontextualisation. People in a variety of different arts, philosophies and sciences have the ability to reframe their reality. Renaissance literally means 'rebirth'. It is the rebirth of old ideas in a new context.

Doug Henning

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

Dorothy Malone

I had had no art training.

Dorothy Thompson

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

Donna Karan

I like the idea of having many different ways to express myself. There is a part of me as an artist and a creator who would like to express myself in many different ways. But then at the same time I know I have limited hours in the day, and I can only do so much successfully.

Donald Byrd

It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.

Donald Barthelme

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

Donald Barthelme

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

Donald Barthelme

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

Donald Barthelme

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

Donald Barthelme

I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

Donald Barthelme

The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.

Donald Barthelme

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to be straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, straightforward, nothing much happens.

Donald Barthelme

What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature... (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something "out there" which cannot be brought "here". This is standard. I don't mean bad artists, I mean good artists. There is no such thing as a "successful artist" (except, of course, in worldly terms).

Donald Barthelme

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

Don DeLillo

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

Don DeLillo

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Don DeLillo

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

Don DeLillo

He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Don DeLillo

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.

Don DeLillo

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.

Donald Sutherland

Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

Donatella Versace

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

Donatella Versace

Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.

Don Johnson

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Don Johnson

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

Don Herold

Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

Don McLean

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

Don McLean

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

Dominique Swain

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

Don Everly

I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.

Don King

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.