Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Irving

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

John Irving

I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why? Because wrestling requires even more dedication than writing because wrestling represents the most difficult and rewarding objective that I have ever dedicated myself to; because wrestling and wrestling coaches are among the most disciplined and self-sacrificing people I have ever known.

John Irving

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

John Howe

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

John Howe

I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.

John Howe

My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

John Huston

Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo's. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.

John Huston

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

John Hersey

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

John Hiatt

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

John Hench

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

John Hench

What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!

John Hench

Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.

John Hench

We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas.

John Hench

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.

John Hench

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

John Hench

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

John Hench

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

John Henry Newman

Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither. ...

John Henry Newman

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

John Hart

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

John Grogan

He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.

John Guare

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

A personality that has contributed, in far away and difficult years, to spread and popularize in Italy the extraordinary artistic strength of jazz.

A performing arts center will not just benefit the Macomb area. A facility like this will be an asset to the entire region.

Sathya Baba

Service without ideal of self . . . trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography, and to realize that the human community is one and indivisible.

Sam Taylor-Wood

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

Sergio Soave is a gifted administrator and accomplished artist and we are fortunate that he will be leading our highly acclaimed Department of Art.

Serendipity means finding great things by chance. That's how we feel about the farm. We read about the farm in a newspaper ad. They also had an article on a couple who talked about serendipity. That day we came out to look at the farm.

Sleeping Beauty' is a classic in the realm of ballet. Because this story is so well known, this would be a fantastic opportunity for parents or grandparents to expose their children and grandchildren to the wonderful art of ballet.

Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk.

At the Postal Service, we understand the power our stamps have in helping to celebrate American history and culture -- in this case, the contributions of Latin American art and dance to American culture,

Rafael Moneo

At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.