Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Mailer

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

Norman Mailer

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Norman McLaren

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

Norman McLaren

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Norman McLaren

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

Norman McLaren

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

Norman McLaren

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Norman Maclean

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

Norman Maclean

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

Norman Reilly Raine

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

Norman Lindsay

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

Os Guinness

For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.

Oscar de la Renta

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

Oscar de la Renta

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

Orson Welles

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

Orson Welles

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

Orson Welles

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

Orson Welles

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

Orson Welles

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Orson Welles

If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!

Orson Welles

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

Orson Welles

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Oriana Fallaci

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Orhan Pamuk

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.

Orhan Pamuk

I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.

Orhan Pamuk

Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about identifying with and understanding people who are not necessarily like us. By nature all good novels are political because identifying with the other is political. At the heart of the 'art of the novel' lies the human capacity to see the world through others' eyes. Compassion is the greatest strength of the novelist.

Orhan Pamuk

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

Orhan Pamuk

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

Orhan Pamuk

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

Orison Swett Marden

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.

Om Puri

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

Omar Epps

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

Omar Khayyam

By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible.