Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bess Myerson

Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

Bernard Baruch

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Bette Midler

Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

Louie Anderson

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

Louie Anderson

Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.

Lisa See

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

Kim Gordon

I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way, it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.

Kesha

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

Kid Cudi

The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are used to that and they don't want change, they don't like change. And I get that, that's cool. Luckily for me, I'm confident in myself as an artist where I can do what I want, and as long as I'm cool with it, I'm cool with it.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

Gustave Flaubert

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Gunter Grass

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

Ben Okri

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Ben Jonson

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

This work already gets you to start questioning. Slides are (generally) projected on the wall. But this one is on the floor. It gets you to think artists are turning this very traditional medium into something they can manipulate.

The question is whether you're going to get a clean read of the deficit out there anyway. They're going to create an artificial picture.

Brian Wilson

Timothy White was the best friend an artist could ever have. The music business lost a true giant when we lost Timothy so suddenly.

Tim is experienced, he's experienced success, he's an articulate leader and he's a great-looking guy. And he has a body of work, a successful pattern.

This special spirit ... it comes from how the artists feel about their mission.

Herb Alpert

This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz and a desire to support its future, ... It gave them the opportunity to indulge in both passions - to celebrate the great artistry of Dave Brubeck, and to support the Brubeck Institute, a program at the University of the Pacific which, through its Fellowship Program and Summer Jazz Colony, serves to train and nurture the next generation of great jazz artists and innovators.

You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five years of your life to a movie, you need something to keep you going.

Today's articles are premature and a bit risky. The stories have a destabilizing effect on the community we work in.

Eliot Spitzer

Today President Bush acknowledged that conflicts of interest by securities analysts are a major problem, but he did not articulate a solution,

George Moore

To be aristocratic in Art one must avoid polite society

Stephen Sondheim

Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.

Marshall McLuhan

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marquis de Lafayette

Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics.

I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.

Oliver Ellsworth

Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.

Olivier Theyskens

Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.

Brandon Boyd

I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.

Gavin Hood

The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.

George Lucas

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.