Famous Quotes & Sayings

We don't need to do just a lemonade stand, we can do art shows and other performances.

We asked Arthur Hills and Steve Forrest to design a course that would complement and not disturb the existing natural environment. They did a terrific job and the course has a very mature feel already.

We consider it a public garden, a piece of Uptown. People stop and look and thank us. During the Uptown Art Fair, someone liked our garden so much that he left us a present.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

We wanted to show how this city became such an artistic capital.

Jenna Fischer

Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

David Blaine

Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

Writers and spoke-word artists will write something in response to a work in the exhibition and share what they wrote. It's open to writers, poets and storytellers.

Jerry Saltz

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

Pablo Picasso

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

We all help each other out. We help critique work. It gives you ideas to think about. You're always striving to get better. This is always staffed by other artists who can talk about your art and you.

Dave Holland

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

Jean Tinguely

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

To me art in order to be truly great must, like the beauty of Nature, be universal in its appeal. It must be simple in its presentation and direct in its expression, like the language of Nature.

Susan Vreeland

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Thomas Jefferson

There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class

Emma Thompson

There is a lot of interest in post office art today, I think people are appreciating what we have, ... We're excited and starting to look up to see what's there, and that is my purpose.

The public has shown they will pay a big premium for artists they really want to see.

James Bay

Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.

Stephen Jay Gould

Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.

Andy Weir

The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity.

The opportunity to see life they way one of one of our greatest Southern artists actually lived it is just extraordinary.

Roberto Benigni

There is nothing has brought them to the world like cinema has, ... I'm grateful to the United States for the art of cinema.

There is so much talk about Lily as a seasoned and articulate model, I thought that would be a good switch for me as the past 10 years of fashion week it's been about a different kind of hype.

We will put that project out to bid for artists interested in doing that project.

We're not into going into the political part of this. It's for the benefit of everybody to have an arts center for the neighborhood.

Why should a female hip-hop artist have to spend time in an urban concrete jungle while other female prisoners are assigned to rural, suburban-type prison camps?

Don Ellis

Why should a craftsman not make use of all his tools if they will promote a greater communication and expressiveness? This is not to deny that beautiful things can be fashioned out of very modest means, but what possible objection can there be towards an artist trying to be more resourceful?

Elizabeth Banks

You have got to have an agent, ... It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

Steven Blum

'Toonami' was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.

Too many people only thought of Capote as this odd, little man who showed up on talk shows during the '70s. This movie helps people remember that he was a very serious artist and writer, not just some self-absorbed celebrity.

This year we welcomed artists from Hollywood to Hong Kong and everywhere in between.

This year, we decided to look back and to honor and showcase some of the artists who came up during that time and team them with the rising stars that people always love to see at the festival.