Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dries van Noten

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

Douglas Davis

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

Douglas Horton

The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.

Douglas Horton

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Douglas Coupland

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

Douglas Coupland

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

Donald Trump

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

Duff Goldman

Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.

Duane Michals

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

Daniel Dennett

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

Dan Colen

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

Dan Colen

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

Dan Brown

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

Dan Brown

Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

Dan Brown

Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.

David Mamet

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

David Mamet

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

David Mamet

When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.

David Foster

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

David Foster

It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It's got something to do with love, with having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.

David Foster

This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out,

David Foster Wallace

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

David Foster Wallace

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

David Foster Wallace

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

David Foster Wallace

There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen all the time. It's these brief flashes or flames, but I get that sometimes. I feel unalone—intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. I feel human and unalone and that I'm in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness in fiction and poetry in a way that I don't with other art.

David Foster Wallace

In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.

David Foster Wallace

Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great hypnotic blah, blah." You can sit around and have these pity parties for yourself. Of course this is bullshit. If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. One possible reason is that the people it's speaking to have become too stupid to appreciate it. That seems a little easy to me.

David Foster Wallace

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

David Foster Wallace

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

David Foster Wallace

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

David Foster Wallace

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

David Foster Wallace

Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.