Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Lynch

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.

David Harewood

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.

David Hare

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

David Hare

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

David Hare

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

David Caruso

I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.

David Carradine

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

Curtis Jackson

The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.

Curtis Jackson

When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

Curtis Jackson

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

Curtis Jackson

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

Corita Kent

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

Corita Kent

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

Corita Kent

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

Corita Kent

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

Corey Feldman

I'm not as cool as you think I think I might be, and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b.s. And art's kind of important, too.

Corey Taylor

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

Corey Taylor

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

Confucius

The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

Confucius

The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.

Confucius

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

Confucius

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Confucius

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

Daniel Tammet

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Daniel Webster

From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.

Daniel Webster

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Daniel Tosh

Am I the only person who hopes that David Beckham has sex with Brad Pitt? I don't know who's in charge of casting in Hollywood, but make it happen before one of them is out of their prime. Can you imagine those two men together making love? If there's a man in here that's junk doesn't wiggle just a little bit at the thought of those two men together - this has nothing to do with your homophobic sexual preference. At that level it's art, you monkey. You should be honored that you share the same restroom with those Greek gods.

Dana Schutz

You just have to work really hard and throw everything into it. ... It's really hard to be an artist, and even if you do work really hard, there's no guarantee about anything. There's no advice you can give someone that things will somehow work out, but you can talk to people about how they can make art a big part of their life.

Dana Spiotta

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

Dana Spiotta

People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.

Dana Spiotta

I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

Dana Spiotta

There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?

Dane Cook

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off.