Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Rose

Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.

My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.

To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.

Isabel Allende

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.

Huston Smith

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

Howard Schultz

Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.

Eleanor Catton

We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.

Fred Frith

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.

The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.

Francisco Costa

When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.

Ridley Scott

I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly.

John Schlesinger

Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

Barry Ritholtz

TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.

Oscar Wilde

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

Oscar Wilde

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Oscar Wilde

'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

Oscar Wilde

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

Earl Wilson

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Meryl Streep

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

Meryl Streep

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

Meryl Streep

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

Meryl Streep

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration, to keep going on the days that you're low. We need each other in that way.

Julie Gold

With art in education, you find what crosses over into many subject areas. It helps to reinforce what they (students) learn in other areas.

With all the new technology available today, some of the most exciting video footage and art is coming from people outside of the traditional 'biz.' We're excited to give some of the up-and- coming talent out there the platform to show off their skills, and we can't wait to see how many interesting ways our song gets interpreted.

The problem is that a lot of people want to study art history; far more people study it than there are available professional opportunities later. But I think for the ones that are really serious and really stay on and do interesting work at graduate level, there will continue to be opportunities.

This seems to be the direction the city's taking. Watching it get wiped out like it's a bad disease is very disheartening. It's not just the club scene, it's also the arts scene that's being squeezed out by this rampant, merciless rent situation.

The radio station was our frat house. We made a lot of noise; it was the ultimate farm team approach. My favorite part was watching the music go from an unknown entity to a popular item people wanted to buy on Marshall Street. An artist that no one knew previously would then come to campus and sell out a show.

Cindy Morgan

I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl.

Christopher Moore

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.

John Berger

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.