Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Kurt Vonnegut

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

Barbra Streisand

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

William Shakespeare

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

William Shakespeare

thou art the best o' the cut-throats

William Shakespeare

true apothecary thy drugs art quick

William Shakespeare

O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven

William Shakespeare

More matter with less art.

William Shakespeare

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

William Shakespeare

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

William Shakespeare

Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.

Laurence Sterne

If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great.

This will be a show that challenges you. This is part of what art is meant to do.

William T. Vollmann

There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but wonder - 'What are the people I know going to think about this?' So I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space.

Robert Wilson

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

The reason why I choose stones as the raw material for my art is the unique texture of the earthly creations burnished after tens of thousands of years. They are nature's most refined works. And my job is to feel and bring out the life of this natural work of art.

Charlie Trotter

There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.

Louis C. K.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

Damien Hirst

Whenever I go to another city to do an art exhibition, the only way to get through it is to get drunk, because it's so similar to the last one.

Raina Telgemeier

When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!

Jackson Pollock

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things -- creating molding the earth -- whether it be the plains of the west -- or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction -- some with a brush -- some with a shovel -- some choose a pen.

Jeff Fisher

We're requiring they stay off the ground to celebrate. If they are on the ground, they have to get up. They can't use the ball as a prop, they can't use anything else as an artificial prop.

We thought this would be a really neat way to celebrate our partnership and acknowledge an art dedicated to children.

Madeleine Albright

jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible.

William Shakespeare

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

William Shakespeare

Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on?

William Shakespeare

Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

William Shakespeare

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

William Shakespeare

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

William Shakespeare

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

William Shakespeare

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

William Shakespeare

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

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