Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boris Kodjoe

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Boris Kodjoe

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

Booker T. Washington

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Bobby Sherman

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

Bob Colacello

I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which Andy had conceived of. I've never taken a picture since, not even with my phone! It just felt too Andy Warhol to keep going around town taking photographs. And I never really thought of doing anything with them after I left the magazine until this great Art Director Sam Shahid about for or five years ago asked where all of the old photos were.

Bob Colacello

He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.

Bob Colacello

Fortunately I had a great intern who did a lot of the research on Andy's prices, which of course are phenomenal, but getting them straight - you know, he's reached this $100million plateau that only a handful of other artists have reached, which puts him in the company of Cezanne, Klimt, Picasso, and such.

Bob Colacello

A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.

Bob Dylan

The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

Bob Dylan

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

Bob Dylan

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

Bob Dylan

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

Bob Dylan

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

Bob Dylan

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

Bob Dylan

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Bob Dylan

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

Bob Dylan

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

Bob Dylan

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

Bob Dylan

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

Bob Dylan

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

Bob Dylan

Too much information about nothing.

Bob Dylan

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

Bob Dylan

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

Bob Dylan

Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

Bob Dylan

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

Bob Dylan

Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures.

Bob Dylan

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Bob Dylan

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

Bob Dylan

In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

Bob Dylan

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

Bob Dylan

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

Bob Dylan

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

Billy Childish

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.