Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

[A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

David Hume

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

David Hume

Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them in great abundance. Hence, the ideas of property become necessary in all civil society.

David Hume

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.

David Hume

And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society, and bestow a similar correctness on every art and calling.

David Duchovny

At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

David Duchovny

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

David Brooks

We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional experiences.

David Brooks

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Posing is a performing art.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

Ben van Berkel

Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as art. It makes you think twice. It inspires you. It brings you back to yourself.

Ben Wheatley

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

Ben Whishaw

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

Ben Whishaw

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[Role of Dr.Strange] gives me an excuse as an actor to be learning with my character, which is something you can do authentically - I'm not a martial arts expert, I'm certainly no sorcerer, so all these things, the movement of the body, the physicality, the changes he goes through mentally and physically, obviously we're not shooting in sequence, but it's a great part.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, "Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment." By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist; it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down.

Beatrice Wood

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

Beatrice Wood

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

Beatrice Wood

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Beatrice Wood

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

Bear Grylls

I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

Barnett Newman

The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.

Barnett Newman

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

Barnett Newman

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Barnett Newman

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

Barnett Newman

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

Barry Diller

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

Barry Commoner

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

August Wilson

The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put his vision of the play or his translation or interpretation of the material on the stage.