Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Ruscha

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

Edward Sapir

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

Edward Sapir

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

Edward R. Murrow

The politician is . . . trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

Edward R. Murrow

It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.

Edward R. Murrow

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Ai Weiwei

We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.

Ai Weiwei

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

Ai Weiwei

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Ai Weiwei

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

Ai Weiwei

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

Bob Mould

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

Bliss Carman

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Blake Shelton

Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

Billy Higgins

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

Billy Eckstine

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

Billy Idol

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

Billy Gibbons

Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form - the blues.

Billy Joel

You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

Billy Joel

Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.

Billy Joel

Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.

Billy Joel

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Billy Joel

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

Billy Joel

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Billy Joel

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Bill Plympton

I like the idea of seeing a film that has the artist's hand in there,a film where you can see his strokes, you can see his working patterns. It's like going to a museum and seeing a Renoir drawing. You want to see their work and you want to see how they put it together. For me to see that in animation is really fresh, it's really exciting, it's really original.

Bill Paxton

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

Bill Russell

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

Bill Joy

The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary states that the innovation will occur elsewhere. No matter how many people you hire. So the only way to get close to the state of the art is to give the people who are going to be doing the innovative things the means to do it. That's why we had built-in source code with Unix. Open source is tapping the energy that's out there.

Beverly Johnson

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

Beverly Sills

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

Beverly Sills

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

Beverly Sills

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.