Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Chipperfield

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.

David Coleman

There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge in science, and history, and the arts…it is the deep foundation in rich knowledge and vocabulary depth that allows you to access more complex text.

David Copperfield

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

David Cronenberg

Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't really think about or talk about. But you can really destroy your movie by casting it badly before you've shot a foot of film. And yet there are no guidebooks for it, there's no rule book to tell you how to do it. It's all your own experience and your own sensibility and your own intuition.

David Cronenberg

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

David Cronenberg

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.

David Cronenberg

The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

David Cronenberg

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

David Antin

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

David Bailey

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

David Bailey

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

David Archuleta

I want to make decisions as to where I want to go as an artist, and to get to it in my own way

Daryl Hannah

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

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.

Dylan Lauren

Anytime you can promote young artists and designers is a cool thing.