Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is our hope that, during the workshops, people will make suggestions for new programs or articulate an unmet need. A designated recorder will be taking notes and presenting any suggestions and/or recommendations at the closing session. An evaluation form will also be available, in case someone is too shy to speak up.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

Dana Schutz

I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It's like a skin-toned transfer, and then all the make-up artist has to do is airbrush over it to blend it into the skin. There's nothing like that. At the moment, you literally have to go red and get it to skin color, which takes forever.

John Updike

I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

I think that it is wrong. I haven't said this one time in 21 years of prosecuting, but I guarantee the appellate court is going to reverse it. It's the worst opinion I've seen - it has no basis in law. All he's doing is setting up an artificial roadblock in our attempt to bring her to justice. He is a judge, so I am not going to say anything disrespectful.

Justin Chon

I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.

It is important for us to do everything right and to do it well. We want to do this in a way that benefits students, and if we do this, the folks in Arts and Sciences will support our efforts.

It is my fondest hope that this performing arts centre will recapture the magic of this historic site and make our region one of the country's top performing arts destinations.

P. J. O'Rourke

Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

Last year in the English Language Arts (portion of the test), Athens was one point away from getting an A,

Laura Lee and I wanted to participate in the restoration of downtown in some way, so we looked at opportunities, coupled with our love for art. We call it a museum/ hotel, because we're not just using art to decorate; it's truly a museum. It will be free to the public.

I was working as an art and tech researcher in '84. At that time there had been a small government program of assistance for artists for at least three or four years. I was working with Super 8 film then. And video in '85 and public radio in the early '80s.

Peter Capaldi

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

Joe Swanberg

I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I was a coat checker, a dishwasher, a waitress, and those were some of the happiest times of my life because I still got to do my writing. You're lucky when you can work and then do your art.

I was able to plan the art program at the local YMCA in Rhode Island for their summer program.

Mal Peet

I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong to gain the huzzahs of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press; I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery

William Murray

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

I will call up some key collectors before an art fair happens and say, 'You should buy this,' and without even seeing the piece, they'll buy it. Twice it's happened with this one collector - and he nearly doubled his money in three days.

I will in due course put forward a motion, in accordance with Article 68 of our constitution, so that a vote on July 1, 2005 can take place,

Romain Grosjean

I went to SG Formula and became Formula Renault 2.0 Champion. I went then to ART in Formula 3 and became Champion. Then I stayed with the team in GP2 Asia Series, and again, I became Champion. Then the first year of GP2 was really great. I was P4 at the end of the season, which was a fantastic result.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

John Franklin

I was just driving past the art guild and I saw it and I stopped in one day. I just pulled some of my old stuff out of storage and put it in the show just for fun.

Steve Hofstetter

I was living on a bunk bed in my father's spare room, ... I'm getting all these articles pumping me as the next big thing, and I'm like, do you guys know what my life is like?

Photography as art has made lots of inroads to the home. People are now more willing to spend the money for photography for the home.

Plastic Logic's display represents the current state of the art as far as a working flexible display is concerned.

Physics and computer science help in the programming aspects of making a game. Math helps in balancing game-play and making rules and fine art is obviously helpful in just making a game look good.

Tom Kelly

People who saw the article must have thought it means potholes everywhere. It's been quite busy with calls all week.

Reducing render errors enables our artists to run more test renders within the given schedule and can result in a better final result.

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.