Famous Quotes & Sayings

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

Dean Norris

The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.

Deborah Ann Woll

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

Amandla Stenberg

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

Amber Rose

I really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics.

Amartya Sen

We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.

Amartya Sen

Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat. Quite a lot of the differences that make us rich and poor are matters just of luck. To somehow revel in one’s privilege would be a mistake. An even bigger mistake would be trying to convert that into a theory that the rich are so much more productive than many of us.

Anthony Mackie

It's hard sometimes when you're in a regular high school, you just feel like the odd kid out. The great thing about going to an art school [is] it's kind of like it's all the odd kids. It's all the kids that don't fit in at their regular schools, because you're into something and excited about something that other kids really aren't into. When you go to art school, everybody's kind of on the same page.

Anna Netrebko

I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. Its not the diva speaking. Its the artist who knows how it has to be done.

Anna Pavlova

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

Anna Paquin

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.

Anna Quindlen

I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company's behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.

Anna Quindlen

Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

Angelus Silesius

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

Angelus Silesius

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Angelina Grimke

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

Claire Bloom

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman

Claire Bloom

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

Claire Bloom

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

Cindy Sherman

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

Cindy Sherman

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

Cindy Sherman

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

Cindy Sherman

I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, 'I don't know that many women that really do that.... Damn it, I'm gonna do that-make this really big picture.'

Cindy Sherman

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

Cindy Sherman

I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

Claes Oldenburg

Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened.

Claes Oldenburg

I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene.

Claes Oldenburg

The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

Claes Oldenburg

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

Claes Oldenburg

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

Claes Oldenburg

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

Claes Oldenburg

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.