Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists,

Way too much is made of the slowdown of money into funds in December, ... For the last several years, there have been countless articles telling investors 'Don't buy a fund in late November or early December' because you might be buying just before it pays its dividend and then you'll have to pay taxes on the dividend next April? Investors are doing what's rational and right.

Jerry Yang

We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.

Derek Hough

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

Derek Bok

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

Derek Bok

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Denise Levertov

The artist must create himself or be born again.

Denise Levertov

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.

Denise Levertov

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

Denis Waitley

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Denis Leary

I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain age and make a good living doing what they do, but nobody knows who they are. They wake up every day and they have the ability to get paid practicing their art, but underneath it all, if you scratched the surface, you still get, "If I only had my own show . . .," or "If I only had my own band . . ." It's what people always do when they want to be their own star.

Deepika Padukone

I don't like differentiating between art and commercial cinema.

Deborah Kara Unger

When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

Deborah Eisenberg

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

Deborah Norville

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

Deb Caletti

At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

Diego Boneta

I love Mexico because that's where I'm from, but my favorite city, whenever I need to recharge, I love Paris. I get very inspired while I'm there. There's so much art and culture, and Paris, before New York, that was the capital of the world. And I love history too, so I go there. It does something special to me.

Diego Rivera

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

Diego Rivera

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

Diego Rivera

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

Diego Rivera

Art is like ham-it nourishes people.

Diego Rivera

I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.

Diego Rivera

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.

Diego Rivera

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

Diego Rivera

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

Diego Rivera

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

Diego Rivera

All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.

Dick Clark

It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.

Dick Bruna

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

Dick Durbin

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

Dick Cavett

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

Dick Cavett

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.