Famous Quotes & Sayings

At this point, we simply have run out of time to execute the concert series at the level of excellence that our audiences, artists and community partners expect.

Carl Andre

That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.

Michael Leunig

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

Ayn Rand

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.

Ayn Rand

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Ayn Rand

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal ...

Ayn Rand

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Ayn Rand

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

Ayn Rand

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

Ayn Rand

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

Atticus Shaffer

I love voice over work. To me, voice over and animation is such an art, because you focus solely on your voice. You do not focus on how to speak, combined with facial expressions, movement, etc. You as the actor need to convey all those things with only your voice.

Bertrand Russell

In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

Bertrand Russell

The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to say that it helps to establish or refute some general law; for science, though it starts from observation of the particular, is not concerned essentially with the particular, but with the general. A fact, in science, is not a mere fact, but an instance. In this the scientist differs from the artist, who, if he deigns to notice facts at all, is likely to notice them in all their particularity.

Bertrand Russell

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire.

Bertrand Russell

It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true.

Benjamin Disraeli

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

Benjamin Disraeli

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Benjamin Disraeli

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

Benjamin Disraeli

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

Benjamin Disraeli

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Benjamin Disraeli

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Benjamin Disraeli

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Michael Dyson

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

Dasha Zhukova

I actually love physics, but art is where I thought I could make a difference for my country.

Damien Hirst

To me it's like, this is the kind of world I live in and these are all the people who are artists who are doing what I'm doing, but in their own way.

To be honest, our budget was too limited to have state of the art Western computer graphics. As I am a still student in computer graphics, I think I could do a better job in my next films if it is needed.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

Steven Pressfield

I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

Russell Crowe

For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing around from different skill sets: the organizational ability of Ridley Scott to the precision of a Ron Howard to the artistic sensibilities of a Peter Weir... to the scope of a Tom Hooper.

This snow fall will help the Olympics, particularly by making the views prettier. It was not necessary because we have a program of artificial snow to ensure there's plenty for the games.

You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your own perfectlyfutile opinion. It makes no difference to you or the world what you may think of any work of art. That is not the question; the point is how it affects you. The picture is the judge of your capacity, not you of its excellence; the world has long ago passed its judgment upon it, and now it is for the work to estimate you.