Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Allen

When men, lost in the devious ways of error and self, have forgotten the ""heavenly birth,"" ... they set up artificial standards by which to judge one another

Fifty-one percent of stolen art is found in art catalogs. People try to fence it,

Arthur Phillips

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

Finding artists for our stamp collection is a matter of rigorous selection, ... (Sims') artwork was chosen out of hundreds of artworks submitted to us. I believe she is also the only artist in the collection from Alabama.

Financial success as a fine artist is largely a product of time, timing and marketing - assuming of course that good art is being produced all the while.

Robin Givhan

Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.

Bruno Heller

Film is still an art there, as opposed to an industry.

Film is a very collaborative art form...you just have to get used to it.

Faces hold a special power for us, perhaps more so than art or objects. The beauty bias has a real influence upon us, something we should be mindful of when dealing with others.

Fans of these artists will die to have content like this that's unique.

John Milton

But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, / Now thou art gone, and never must return!

Kim Hunter

Both Roddy and I were smokers. The producer, Arthur Jacobs, had long-stemmed cigarette holders made for everyone so we could smoke with the make-up on.

Andy Serkis

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.

Andy Serkis

Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.

Amy Heckerling

I went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them.

Amy Heckerling

I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.

Amy Tan

Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might.

Alexandra Stoddard

I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't want to live a grubby life.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I never wanted to study art. And I don't think you need to study art if you are an artist. It's even dangerous to go to school. You need to do whatever you want, as you want.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

Peter Milligan

I'm continuing to write and love 'Hellblazer.' Also, I'm writing a 'Flashpoint' mini-series ' with art by George Perez - which features Shade the Changing Man and Enchantress.

Penelope Mitchell

Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.

Percy Sledge

I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists - the Beach Boys, the Temptations, the Four Tops. Otis Redding. Wilson Pickett. Stevie Wonder. So many great singers. And don't forget Clarence Carter!

Peter Davison

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

Peter Beard

I graduated. I did History of Art, you know, all those things - American Studies - and then I went to art school, and I did Joseph Alvarez in the art school.

Peter Beard

I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.

Peter Beard

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.

Peter Krause

And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now.

Peter Max

I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.

Peter Falk

I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios.

Martha Beck

Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.

To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art.