Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm D. Lee

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

Maggie Nelson

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

Maggie Nelson

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Maggie Nelson

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

Maira Kalman

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

Maimonides

It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Art arises from the interaction of the mind and the heart.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities...When the awareness of the artist is in tune with this center of infinite creativity, his piece of art breathes fullness of life, nourishes the creator, the artist, and inspires his admirers with waves of bliss.

Mahatma Gandhi

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

Mahatma Gandhi

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

Mahatma Gandhi

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

Mahatma Gandhi

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

Gavin Hood

You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore how can I direct women? I am also only 42, therefore how can I direct someone who's 60? So you see where the argument ends up? If you take it to its logical conclusion, I would have to walk around and point a video camera at myself. And who the hell is interested in that?

Gavin Bryars

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

Gay Talese

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

Gavin DeGraw

Things take a little more time when you're not doing really obvious sales. I don't have any nudity in my videos, or anything close to it, and I don't have shootouts or explosions or car chases ... There aren't a bunch of drugs in the videos and I am not wearing hot pants, and I don't dance. So, as far as videos or anything visually is concerned, I'm not a very visually stimulating artist.

Gavin Newsom

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

Gavin Newsom

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

Gavin Newsom

The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.

Gavin Newsom

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting

Gavin Newsom

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional

Gavin Newsom

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

Gavin Newsom

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

Gavin Newsom

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

Gavin Newsom

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

Gavin Rossdale

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

Gabrielle Zevin

It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

Frida Kahlo

Painting completed my life.

Frida Kahlo

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.