Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Thurber

He was quite confident. He's smart, articulate and polite.

He was going to go to the Institute of Art in Boston. He was going for music. He was going to be a producer. I don't know anything. I have to go to work.

He was found to be uncultured when he was caught not knowing anything about European history, opera, art and so on,

He was extremely talented, but in a different way. His images are very vivid. He used empty space in an extremely artistic way. He was not so much looking at the history of art. He looked at the images of movies and advertising. He was not looking backwards, but he was always looking at the present in a way nobody had done before.

Douglas Coupland

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

David Ross

It is simple. It works like a bank, except that instead of money you deposit works of art to secure your own future.

Ronnie Spector

I thought the Goldmine article was real good but I do know that the discography was missing a lot of records and had some wrong information in it.

Justin Gatlin

I thought that the light wasn't as bright in art as it was in track and field.

I think we have a really strong artistic showing here in the valley. And I think everybody is wanting to reconnect with the open treasures (the land) we have left.

I think that not only will an engineering program be good for Marshall, but Marshall will be good for engineering. With the strong liberal arts programs offered at the University in fields like language and science, I think that our program will produce students ready to compete in a global job market.

Chris Cornell

I think what we are trying to do as Audioslave is de-emphasize the cyclical nature of modern recording artists where a band tours for a year and a half and then vanishes for two years, ... What we'd like to do is make records and tour. Write music, tour, record, tour. Keep it all going all at once like bands did in the '70s. Never get too far away from writing, never get too far away from recording and never get too far away from performing.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really got involved. It was just somehow - and I thought that the artistry was all in the theater.

Dan Rosensweig

I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

Kirby Dick

I think a lot of people in film and the arts themselves feel kind of helpless, and over the last three or four years have turned to their art form as a way to exert some influence.

Chet Faker

I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.

Ian MacKaye

I think Biscuit and Tim (Kerr) were really visual artists from the get-go, ... The Big Boys had a extreme idea of presentation. It was beyond merely camp, it wasn't ironic, it was really confrontational.

I think Bill was so helpful because he knew the BRAC process, he knew the shipyard and he could articulate its mission.

I think beach nourishment is used to help sell housing projects and protect the towns' tax base. People have this idea of the Outer Banks as a wild, wind-swept destination and an artificial beach will take away that lure which in turn could hurt the economy.

Jet Li

I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know... But Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts film to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope the world will become.

Kevin Allen

I think at that point, down to final four, Trump was looking for a specific thing, ... He just couldn't find a way to articulate that when it came time to fire me.

Michael Flatley

I think as an artist I strive to make people feel things, and move people, and I think that's what this show does.

Jeff Koons

I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church. Then they were supported also by the state.

Robert Pinsky

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

Daniel Breaker

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

Jeff Tweedy

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

Jenny Lewis

I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

I think a lot of the reason we're doing wearable art is because of Karma.

Jonathan LaPaglia

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

I think it's popular for a number of reasons. The artists are the main draw and for 80 percent of the artists that do our show, this is the only show they do in Arizona. This is the one chance for people to see these artists.

I think it's one of the great performance arts centers in the world. The performing arts in Australia have blossomed, I think, largely because of the role that this building plays.

Alex Winter

I think it's the greatest art form in the world, so I'm always encouraging to people.

It gets a little tiresome to read articles from people who don't understand the situation and continue to pick on someone who is working so hard.

It gives them an option to learn new skills, get interested in artwork and be a part of their community.