Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Martin

I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.

Thomas Campbell

I think of those weavers working through the damp Christmas months to get the tapestry done in six months per the contract in Florence, and clinging to every minute of daylight. Probably they had the artist breathing down their neck.

Robert Pinsky

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.

Alan Ruck

I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.

I think of real estate as a little bit like cooking or like art.

It does not mean you come here to present artists' work and neglect local charities; nor do art festivals and exclude working with the children, which are the lifeblood of the community.

Kaskade

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

Piet Mondrian

It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.

Simon Cowell

I think he knows how to articulate something that people are entertained by and still be true to the message he's trying to send, ... very aware of himself.

Rory Kinnear

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.

Michael Connelly

I think Harry and jazz go together for a lot of reasons. For the most part, he listens to artists who had to struggle to make their music, whether because of their personal demons and ills or those of society. They had to fight to make their music, and that is the bridge to Harry. In his own way, he has to fight to make his music.

Jenji Kohan

I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate.

Andy Lau

I think Fruit Chan is an interesting director because he could offer a purely commercial attraction with artistic subjects and personalities.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

It allows you to think because it is not a technique-based art but an idea-based art. So often times you are thinking about those ideas and how to express those ideas physically.

It allows me to stay in the art scene socially and professionally while making connections for my art.

Maurice Sendak

It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.

I think more businesses are recognizing the economic value of having the arts as part of town life. It's exploding. It's a very exciting development and a testament to how vibrant the arts community is.

Rachel Platten

I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

I think I've taken 41 charges this season. There's definitely an art to it.

I thought it was a tragedy. Arts programs are so important to intellectual and emotional development.

O. Henry

I thought most of the great soul artists were either relegated to the oldies circuit or being stuffed into what R&B has become. I had in mind this idea of a long, continuing series of records.

I thought maybe I'd get a couple more, ... but not like this. Everyone said they are addicting. I just like having artwork on my body.

I thought I'd heard most things that people want to bet on after 30 years in the business. But one asking literally to place a dead cert was unique. I'm glad Arthur has lost.

Benjamin Bratt

I thought I might be a sheet metal worker, ... But I also knew the importance of getting an education. And when I got to college, it derailed any notion I had of being in construction. The arts seemed to stimulate me more.

Rande Gerber

I thought it would be kind of funny to do that. An artist from Holland designed them.

I think they're all very vibrant and interesting art in relationship to different types of art shown in our community. People who have come in the last few months all said they haven't seen anything like it.

John's film is very brave. Its honesty is very, very powerful, and he's one of the few artists trying to do something we haven't seen before.

Marilyn Monroe

Johnny Hyde was wonderful, but he was not my Svengali. Milton Greene was not my Svengali I' m nobody's slave and never have been ... Now they write that Lee Strasberg is my Svengali . . . and Arthur Miller isn't my Svengali.

Chris Whitley

I write in a way that's more subconscious, just trying to articulate some mystery that's not obvious.

Cyril Connolly

It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.

I'm so happy that the Arthritis Foundation is honoring me. I'm honored that I'm being honored by an organization that does so much to help people.

Nikki Sixx

I'm sober, and I'm sick. I'm sick in the head. And all that support and all that great stuff around me allows my artistic side to be even more demented.