Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Nauman

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Bruce Nauman

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

Bruce Nauman

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

Bruce Nauman

When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.

Bruce Nauman

What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.

Bruce Springsteen

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

Bruce Springsteen

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Bruce Springsteen

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Brian Sewell

I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.

Brian Sewell

Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.

Brian Tee

My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.

Brian Schmidt

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

Brian Selznick

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

Brian Tracy

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

Brian J. White

I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.

Brian K. Vaughan

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

Brian K. Vaughan

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist,

Brian Boitano

I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that --- even for just a moment --- I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears.

Brian Austin Green

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

Brian Aldiss

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

Brenda Ueland

... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

Brenda Ueland

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

Brad Paisley

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come.

Brad Paisley

Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it.

Brad Paisley

I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.

Brad Paisley

I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.

Brad Paisley

Can't wait to date a supermodel, can't wait to sue my Dad. Can't wait to wreck a Ferrari, on the way to rehab.

Brad Pitt

When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.

Brad Dourif

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

Boz Scaggs

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

Jane Haddam

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Jane Jacobs

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.