Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

Look here, I often feel the same in more than one respect--not just in financial things, but in art itself, and in life in general. But do you think it's anything exceptional? Don't you think every man with a little spirit and energy has those moment

Marketing attractions today is such an important issue not just for arts organizations. But if you were promoting professional wrestling, you'd still have to do the same thing.

Juan Pablo Galavis

Marlins Park is what I call my office in Miami, because I work for the Venezuelan Museum of Baseball and Hall of Fame. My job is to go to all the MLB stadiums and to talk to and collect articles from all the Venezuelan players in the big leagues and those Americans that played in Venezuela.

Bob Brown

(Mark's) probably the most talented living stained-glass artist in the world, ... He would be the Tiffany of today.

Many young artists today only experience copyright as an obstacle, a source of incomprehensible demands for payment, cease and desist letters, legal transaction costs. This is a shame because copyright can be a valuable tool for artists and creators of all kinds -- even for those who are trying to share their work without charge.

James Rosenquist

Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.

Masterpieces of world art cannot be hostages in legal disputes. Just look at the list of the paintings displayed at the exhibition. These include works by Renoir, Degas and Picasso. The paintings are kept in Russia, but they belong to the whole world. They are inviolable.

Mastering the art of negotiation involves leading the other person to your conclusion while having them believe it is their idea.

Ryan Potter

Martial arts is a life journey. One of the things my teacher taught me a long time ago was that everyone's path to the mastery of a certain system is different. Some people's path is a very direct route, where others might wind back and forth if you are injured or something.

Marshall had an excellent surface. The artificial surfaces now are as good or better than grass.

Vicki Baum

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings

Terry Teachout

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.

Limestone is porous, it transmits moisture. When you create an artificial bed like I'm describing, you sort of duplicate that kind of environment.

Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse

Cyril Connolly

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once

Jonathan Safran Foer

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I was very interested in art and art history. I probably would have pursued that somehow - working in a gallery or an auction house.

Len Cariou

I was in Canada running the Manitoba Theatre Centre as artistic director and I had written to Mr. Prince and asked him if he would give me his stage manager copy of the musical 'Company,' which I was going to do in my season there, ... He said, 'Yes,' and then said, 'By the way, Stephen's written you a musical and I'm going to send you the book.'

Philippe Petit

I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.

I think if you were seeking a name for the college of arts and sciences ... you really couldn't imagine a better name than the name of Thomas Harriot. There, you have this renaissance man, somebody who wouldn't have recognized the boundary between the arts and the sciences.

Grimes

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

It fits in with art curriculum under art careers because they need to know that there really is money in the art field, in fine arts. They see a direct, real world correlation between doing art and marketing art. I think that's important for the art field.

I think satire is a beautiful art and I'm still working at it. To me, it's more valid than straight news reporting.

Charlie Cook

I think people have a sense that right now Democrats are completely powerless in Washington, that they're just sort of bystanders. But there's a danger of Democrats' looking always like they are carping. It's important for them to articulate some kind of vision.

I think people can spend a little too much time chasing their tail. They worry too much about small details, many times artists push the output of their printers. They question, 'Why can't the quality be better?' Unfortunately, cost and production often limit their abilities.

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

I think Rob really has an incredible breadth of experience and sort of touches all the bases that the School of Art is involved with. He understands the life of a studio artist, the ambitions of young artists and what they do when they get out of school. He's a terrific writer, and I think it's a great appointment.

I think punting this issue to the Arts Commission is the fairest way of doing this at this point,

Andrea Martin

I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.

Thomas Campbell

I think of those weavers working through the damp Christmas months to get the tapestry done in six months per the contract in Florence, and clinging to every minute of daylight. Probably they had the artist breathing down their neck.

Simon Cowell

I think he knows how to articulate something that people are entertained by and still be true to the message he's trying to send, ... very aware of himself.

Rory Kinnear

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.