Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kerry Washington

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

Kerry Washington

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

Kesha

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

Kesha

You never know what an artist is going to create next.

God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.

Kenneth Noland

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

Kenneth Noland

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

Kenneth Noland

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

Jonathan Swift

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

Jonathan Swift

This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.

Jonathan Raban

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Jonathan Raban

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Jonathan Sacks

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

Jonathan Sacks

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

Jonathan Safran Foer

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed souffles and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are.

Jonathan Safran Foer

ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are no expamples of art, nor good reasons to think that it will ever exist. (Everything that has been made has been made with a purpose, teverything with an end exists outside of that thing, i.e., "I want to sell this", or "I want this to make me famous and loved", or "I want this to make me whole", or worse, "I want this to make others whole.") And yet we continue to write, paint, sculpt and compose. Is this foolish of us?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

Narada Michael Walden

A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

Naomie Harris

As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and also stories that shine light on areas of history that haven't had light shined on them before.

Naomie Harris

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

Narendra Modi

However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!

Napoleon Hill

One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Liz Miller

Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.

Lloyd Kaufman

The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

Lloyd Kaufman

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

Logan Lerman

I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.

Livy

The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.

Lynda Barry

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.