Famous Quotes & Sayings

Condola Rashad

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

Clay Walker

I heard some famous people had an anniversary, five long years together, it was Hollywood history. Now my grandma and grandpa never made no printed page, but they took the love of 57 years right to the grave.

Coleman Young

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Clement Mok

It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.

Claude Monet

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

Claude Monet

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

Claude Monet

The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us...

Claude Monet

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

Claude Monet

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Claude Monet

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

Claude Monet

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors...

Claude Monet

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Claude Monet

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

Claude Monet

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.

Claude Monet

I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs that winter still must bind, And whom today the Spring no more concerns. Behold, this crocus is a withering flame; This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art. Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them, Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.

Dante Alighieri

All of nature is God's art.

Dante Alighieri

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Dan Rice

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

Dan Simmons

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

Dan Simmons

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Dan Simmons

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

Dan Simmons

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

Dan Reynolds

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

Dan Rather

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

Dan Rather

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Dan Flavin

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

Dan Fogelberg

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.

Dan Fogelberg

It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.