Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don DeLillo

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Don DeLillo

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

Don DeLillo

He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Don DeLillo

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.

Don DeLillo

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.

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.

Duane Michals

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

Duane Michals

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

Duane Michals

Art has to address eternal issues.

Duane Michals

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

Duane Michals

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

Duke of Wellington

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

Duke of Wellington

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Duke Ellington

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

Duke Ellington

There is no art when one does something without intention.

Duke Ellington

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

Duke Ellington

The artist must say it without saying it.

Duke Ellington

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

Dr. John

When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically, and it was all of interest to me.

Douglas Wilson

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

Douglas Wilson

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Dr. Dre

You're a victim from my drive-by of thoughts.

Dr. Dre

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

Dorothy L. Sayers

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the Ego, so that the child who has fantasied himself a murderer ends by becoming a Loeb or a Leopold. The creative Imagination works outwards, steadily increasing the gap between the visioned and the actual, till this becomes the great gulf fixed between art and nature. Few writers of crime-stories become murderers--if any do, it is not the result of identifying themselves with their murderous heroes.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always known it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.

Doris Humphrey

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

Doris Humphrey

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.