Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dolly Parton

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Ray Park

The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the animal styles at the time. It was around about the time when Jackie was doing 'Drunken Master,' and, like, Snake versus this and that.

Kate Christensen

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

John Wayne

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

Janina Gavankar

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

Bobby Pulido

The market has changed, with all this piracy. It has hurt the budgets of all labels, especially the large ones because they have such a high overhead. There's no money to cultivate an artist or to do promotion. The artists are essentially on their own after they are signed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

Holbrook Jackson

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

Holly Johnson

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

Hermann Broch

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

Hermann Broch

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Hermann Broch

The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.

Hermann Hesse

Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.

Hermann Hesse

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

Hermann Hesse

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

Hermann Hesse

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

Hermann Hesse

You love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

Henry Steele Commager

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - as with these - life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

Joseph Addison

There is a great amity between designing and art.

Joseph Addison

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

Joseph Addison

There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and?there ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.

Joseph Addison

Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.

Joseph Addison

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

Josef Albers

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

Josef Albers

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

Josef Albers

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.