Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dora Russell

Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.

Donnie Yen

A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're not just performing martial arts. You're actually acting as much as any other actor.

Donnie Yen

I guess I'm pretty lucky because in childhood I studied so many martial arts styles and I never stopped researching them, my body is very adjustable and I can turn into different expressions with my body.

Donnie Yen

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

Donnie Yen

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.

Donnie Yen

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

Donnie Yen

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

Donnie Yen

In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.

Donnie Yen

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

Donnie Yen

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.

Donnie Yen

The main reason I like UFC is not just the martial arts aspect, but it's about one person against the other person. It's about being able to test yourself with the truth.

Donnie Yen

Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

Donnie Yen

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.

Donald Sinden

I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.

Donald Miller

I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics;

Donald Miller

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

Donald Miller

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

Donald Miller

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.

Don Henley

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

Don Henley

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

Don Henley

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

Don Henley

We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

Don Marquis

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Dwayne Hickman

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

Dwayne Johnson

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[on the atomic bomb] It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

Colleen Atwood

I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

Colleen Atwood

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

Colleen McCullough

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

Claudia Lee

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

Claudia Jones

A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom.

Claudia Rankine

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

Clare Boothe Luce

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.