Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Thomas

Her lyrical artistry is nothing short of revolutionary. It's the art with the most profound sexual politics I've ever seen anywhere.

Her excitement is contagious. She's infusing science into the art curriculum.

Mary Lambert

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.

Oscar Wilde

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Ezra Pound

Good art however ''immoral'' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

God make thee good as thou art beautiful.

He's here to make art history and the fact is that no one before him has done these projects to this scale; he thinks big so he wants to act big and as he's gotten bigger he's gotten to live his dreams out.

E. O. Wilson

He's got strong programs. He's got a lot of the basics and he could come through. The material and artistry are there. He's a player (for an Olympic medal), for sure.

Historically scientific research has been more popular, and liberal arts has lagged behind. The awards for the arts are much smaller.

Salman Rushdie

I think it's a stupid way to read a book, ... to say that because something happens to one person the author is trying to suggest that all people are like this. The novel is the art of the particular. And I'm talking about a particular person whose development from innocence to guilt, if you like, is his own particular narrative arc. The point is to make that coherent - not to read the book as some kind of simple allegory, but to read it as a story about a person.

I think it's going to be a great opportunity. And who knows? We might even get the next Christian recording artist from here.

I think it's excellent. The attention to detail, the way the artists really love what they're doing. They're excited about it.

Greg Collins

I think it's an honor to get your work in there, because there is a lot of good photography work there, and art work too. So to make it, I think, it's an honor.

I think it's important that a museum which exhibits pre-modern art doesn't lose its link to contemporary art. The Getty has been collecting Greek and Roman art, but I hope to bring a network of other links throughout the world.

It is a good experience for the kids because they learn that art is something people do because they like it.

It is a great thing -- someone whose art was about American products and mass production and Levi's being one of the most etched American things.

It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune

Baltasar Gracian

It is a great art to know how to sell wind

J. Taylor

It is a great art to die well.

It is all about connecting the arts and the sciences.

I think the Maya participated in the invention of writing much earlier than thought. As cities began in Mesoamerica around this time, writing was a part of that, just like public art and presentation of political ideology. It's all part of a package.

I think the layout will make it easier for people who don't like crowds. The festival will have the excitement of the people but will not feel as crowded. If you like art and a mellow feeling, come between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday. It's always a little bit less congested.

James Cromwell

I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.

I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So what I did was I invented a hundred artists from around the world. I figured out their bios, their passions in life and their art styles, and I started making their work.

Simon Cowell

I think you're the first artist we've had on the show who's refused to compromise.

Paul Richards

I think you have to be blind to realize this isn't a good thing for the community. We want people to come to Oil City and see the artist community and see its neighborhoods. ... We're very serious about doing things top-of-the-line so we better the community.

Joshua Bell

I think you can appreciate different interpretations. Art is not a contest. I can even appreciate hearing someone play something in a way that I wouldn't.

I think the fact that they didn't attain the level of success of solo artists probably has something to do with it as well. They may have had some impact, but none are around today. They weren't able to sustain it.

Susanne Bier

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

I think the art ordinance definitely needs to be amended. We don't need to put art in utilitarian facilities like storm water treatment facilities or jails. It's ludicrous.

I think the art form I work in benefits from demystification.

Shawn Colvin

I think that the indefinable space between happy and sad is the most moving and compelling place for an artist to be. If there's anything I consistently strive for, it's a melancholy limbo.

J. J. Johnson

It is going to be good, quality art as well as something interesting to the community.