Famous Quotes & Sayings

We learned recently that the economics of the proposals in the competing cities would be hard to beat. These were elements outside of our control and we know that our proposal is visually compelling, attractively located, experientially state of the art and financially sound.

We're trying to integrate the two buildings into one cultural arts center.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

Alex Lifeson

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

Alex Grey

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

Alex Grey

My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the multi-dimensional imaginal realms that pull us toward consciousness evolution.

Alex Grey

Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.

Blake Shelton

The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is what all the other artists are doing. You need to be doing it also.' I didn't really have a clue what is was.

Blake Shelton

I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.

Emmy Rossum

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

John O'Donohue

The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.

Gloria Steinem

The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same.

J. G. Ballard

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.

For me, art is like a big support group, where you go and meet people who think the same way, and you go, 'Okay, I'm not nuts.'

The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.

Bar Paly

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.

Bryan Batt

No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

Bill Paxton

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

Bill Viola

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

Billy Porter

I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.

Banks

I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

Bryce Dallas Howard

There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.

Billy Collins

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

Billy Collins

I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.

The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

E. O. Wilson

There a lot of locals who have come out to support it. This year, I've seen families. In talking to some our members, the art galleries and some of those folks are doing pretty well.

There are a lot of really well-established juried art shows that you have to do well in one year to get into the show the next year, ... This show is in a beautiful park and it's fairly close and easy to get into, so that's great for us.

Jim Berg

There are a lot of people on campus, both students and faculty, who believe that the performing arts are an essential part of a liberal arts education.