Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Barnes

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

Antoni Gaudi

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

Antoni Gaudi

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

Mary Quant

Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.

Matisyahu

Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.

We may see Beaumont and Port Arthur underwater for three, four, five or even seven days." ()

David Elliott

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

We may have recovered an article that was used to cut up the body.

Kelly McGillis

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

Kelly Price

I was known for being talented, but I was still the fat girl. And it wasn't what people were looking for. There's a lot that you hear. There's a lot of cruelty out there. Some of it comes from the executive offices. It comes from other artists at times. It was a very difficult thing to overcome.

Kelsea Ballerini

My theory is the root of a country artist is truth and honesty. For me, I look at Sam Hunt. The truth and the honest thing is we have southern roots, we were raised in a southern way, but we listen to Drake and other stuff, too.

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

John Updike

We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.

HP is delighted to be part of this worthwhile event and to provide a showcase of our latest consumer technology aimed at celebrating the art of entertainment.

Humor and accessibility are important to us. Art is so conceptual today -- if you don't understand where the artist is going, you may not understand the art.

Carlos Fuentes

Human kind will prevail. And it will prevail because, in spite of the reaction of history, novels tell that art restores right in us that was disregarded by history. History is being what was, then literature offers what history has not always been,

Clem Burke

I actually don't mind it. It's the ultimate kind of pop art statement in a way, if you think about it.

He was our man. He was the first artist we signed, and the biggest. We were lucky to have a relationship.

James Thurber

He was quite confident. He's smart, articulate and polite.

He was going to go to the Institute of Art in Boston. He was going for music. He was going to be a producer. I don't know anything. I have to go to work.

He was found to be uncultured when he was caught not knowing anything about European history, opera, art and so on,

He was extremely talented, but in a different way. His images are very vivid. He used empty space in an extremely artistic way. He was not so much looking at the history of art. He looked at the images of movies and advertising. He was not looking backwards, but he was always looking at the present in a way nobody had done before.

Michael Dyson

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

Dasha Zhukova

I actually love physics, but art is where I thought I could make a difference for my country.

I actually started college as an art major, so I do have a semi-developed visual sense. I just don't have the chops to do it myself anymore. But with Matt, I only have to give him a general concept or whatever, and he takes it over the moon. Whatever he winds up with is always better than I could even dream.

Roger Bart

I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because they were an easy A. I loved being in plays and musicals too, but you didn't really get credit for those.

One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial construct of reality television, is that the people who are recruited to be on those shows, and the people who are interested in going on those shows, basically want to be famous. Or maybe they can win a million dollars or something.

Doug Aitken

One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.