Famous Quotes & Sayings

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

David Boies

The law provides that companies cannot get together and pool their copyright and use them for anticompetitive purposes, ... Only about 2 percent of musical artists are signed to record label contracts. Napster enables the other 98 percent to reach audience and compete with record labels.

The Internet provides a powerful way to get around these problems and artists are starting to learn how to use it to reach out to fans.

Steve Martin

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

The mainstream opinion was that the Egyptians were importing it from Mesopotamia. In Egypt, we had only evidence that they were making it into artistic objects.

Tyler Cowen

The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.

The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.

Francis Bacon

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery

The legacy of the music is undeniable, and when something like this is unearthed it gets attention, especially when the artists are no longer with us. When you think you've exhausted their entire output and something new comes out, it's a real treat. People of our generation who weren't around when this stuff was going on feel like we can participate in it when new stuff is unearthed.

Oscar Wilde

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Malcolm X

If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

James Thurber

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

James Thurber

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

James Thurber

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

James Thurber

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

James Thurber

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

James Sinegal

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

James Spader

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

James Surowiecki

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

James Surowiecki

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

James Polshek

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

James P. Cannon

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

James Patterson

We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

James Montgomery

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

James McAvoy

I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

James Mark Baldwin

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

James Mangold

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

James Marsters

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

James Madison

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun.

James Madison

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

James Levine

Art has never been a popularity contest.

James Lipton

I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.