Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian De Palma

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

Brian Chesky

When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.

Brian Eno

Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.

Brian Eno

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Brian Eno

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Brian Eno

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Brian Eno

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Brian Eno

W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.

Brian Eno

People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye. Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

Brian Eno

The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quite extreme emotional experiences watching a movie, but they stop as soon as you walk out of the cinema. You can see people being hurt, but even though you feel those things strongly, you know they’re not real.

Brian Eno

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

Brian Eno

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

Brian Eno

I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.

Brian Eno

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

Brian Eno

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

Brian Eno

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

Brian Eno

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Brian Eno

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Brian Eno

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

Bret Michaels

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

Brent Weeks

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

Brandi Carlile

I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.

Brandi Carlile

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

Brandon Cox

Discipleship is the art and science of helping people find, follow and fully become like Jesus. Discipleship happens as God's people show love, share truth and live life with one another, making new disciples along the way.

Brandon Boyd

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

Brandon Boyd

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Brandon Boyd

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

Brandon Boyd

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

Brandon Boyd

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

Brandon Boyd

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

Bootsy Collins

I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

Bootsy Collins

Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.

Boris Kodjoe

I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.