Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Carreras

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

John Ridley

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.

If artificial barriers are necessary to keep employees dedicated to company goals, then that's an indicator of weak management.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

Lisa Randall

I don't think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science.

Dorian Missick

I enjoy theater just for the sheer excitement of it and the immediate response that you get, and how every night the audience is a little bit different; but then, it's expensive to work in N.Y., and stage work is limited, so you're just doing it for the art.

I enjoy it very much and it helps keep me active. I like to be busy, and teaching is a two-way street. I have the opportunity to help others and in turn I learn from the young minds who are in our classes. We have to get more young people involved in helping to perpetuate the arts in this area.

Laurieann Gibson

I enjoy getting an artist at the beginning stages, and then I'm able to pull out something that is so pure and actually create their individual style. From how they pick up the microphone, to how to look on the stage, to their dance steps, to their talk, their opinions, to what they wear, so it really gets to be developed from the beginning.

David Cronenberg

I don't think it's a good thing, really, for a filmmaker or an artist of any kind to only want to be appreciated or loved. It's if you start chasing that, then I think you've destroyed yourself.

Scott Tucker

From the point forward, the camera has been in my hand up until today, ... From studying art photography at Southern University, I've gone from color, to black and white, and now gradually to digital.

Shepard Fairey

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.

For us to take that article offline after 14 days really does us a disservice.

Penn Jillette

For us to make any sort of statement that our artistic expression is being trounced would be self-serving, unpleasant and not true.

Tom Daschle

Forty-four senators have now voted to dismiss the articles of impeachment, ... The president will not be removed from office. For the good of the country and in keeping with the Constitution it is now time to end this trial. We are here not to protect the president of the United States; we were here to protect the Constitution and we have done so faithfully and fully.

For three decades the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has been a fervent supporter of the American playwright. It is vital that we continue to support those writers who relate the ongoing American saga for the stage. This award brings the appropriate recognition to the important role the playwright serves in American Arts & Letters.

Fortunately for the department, however, Professor Arthur has attended some events as he's been able. He still participates in a faculty reading group, has attended some talks and meetings and continues to keep up with his e-mails.

Daniel Boulud

For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.

Jonathan Richman

If it was a five year-old asking me to do "Road Runner" I would have done it easy. But the same people who asked for "Road Runner" asked for "Pablo Picasso", they all had these sort of arty voices.

Jonathan Richman

If it was a five year-old asking me to do ""Road Runner"" I would have done it easy. But the same people who asked for ""Road Runner"" asked for ""Pablo Picasso"", they all had these sort of arty voices.

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

Aldous Huxley

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Anthony Zerbe

I give talks to theater arts departments, and I don't know what I'll say. I don't plan a thing. It's just the energy of these young people. They're the next generation, and what they have is very representative of how I felt when I was 19 or 20 or so. I'm really happy to be with them.

I got a few books on tourist attractions, and I studied a National Art Museum book. I saw some of the real paintings. It's neat to see the real-life paintings up close.

Mickey Sumner

I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress.

I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.

Wolfgang Petersen

There is an art to casting. And I hope we will see more ensemble films. I don't like star-led films, it's much better to have more stars in one film so that the audience can see them working together.

Gia Coppola

There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

When we first approached The ARTS at Marks Garage and other galleries about MAMo, they really embraced the idea and ran with it.

Allan Carr

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

Carl Jung

We are not defined by our things. It´s not the clothes that we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire- It´s not where we live- but how we live that defines us. It´s our actions that are remembered long after we are gone.

Carl Jung

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Albert Barnes

Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

Albert Barnes

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts