Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alyssa had been working for an art source in Southern California as their Northern California representative, ... I watched her work with private individuals, corporate clients and interior designers to provide them with art. I saw sales happening in my community, sales of artwork I represent in town. I knew there had to be a mutually beneficial way for us to work together.

Jenny Offill

Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away.

A lot of people think we are a total magnet school, ... Really, we are an elementary school with a magnet component. It's kind of like we have two schools under one roof. We have Program A, which is the neighborhood school, and Program B, which is the arts magnet school.

Boris Vallejo

A lot of portrait artists specialize in men, women or children,

Christine McVie

A lot of the old blues artists have influenced me. Then again, I'm sure the Beatles have... the Beach Boys, a lot of the older bands. I listen to Steely Dan an awful lot. Whether they influence me, I don't know, because they seem a lot more sophisticated than I.

A lot of people just stumble in and they're not aware of what they're looking at. When they find out, they're kind of surprised and say, 'Wow, this is really good.' The fact of the matter is a good portion of these artists went to art school. They're trained and it shows. There may an expectation that work won't be as good as your average gallery show because of the population producing it, but I think people are generally surprised and impressed.

A memorial service can be planned anywhere. You can have it in a park, a church, even an art gallery.

Amelia Robinson is a firecracker. Her art is expressive, and that's what I like ...

Americans have mastered the art of being prosperous though broke.

James Franco

A lot of things can be read into it, but essentially it's about the desire to be an artist and what a struggle that is. It's about everything. You've got issues of being a man, finding meaning and the struggle to express oneself. The sad thing is that sometimes someone doesn't really have the talent or the voice to do that.

A lot of the time it's just that person-to-person connection between the artists that ends up being the most valuable thing that can happen for them.

David Allen

Also, real-world events can be reflected in a strip more easily since there is no long production process between the creation of the strip and its delivery to the reader. An artists can change his mind about the direction of the story right up to the point of publication.

Donald Miller

They may have thought this was a prank, but it was felony theft, ... This was a piece of art work valued at over $1,500 so it's a felony for sure.

Laura Joplin

The younger Janis was a painter, a drawer. She was a very serious art student for a number of years. My family memories of Janis are really more about her practicing the craft of visual art, sketching, constantly sketching.

They have, in essence, treated these articles as empty vessels to be filled with some witches' brew of charges,

Scott Smith

All 10 performers were judged by a celebrity panel consisting of music artists who were performing at the fair, a talent manager and a radio personality.

A little research can go a long way to stopping the con artists who try to turn this tragedy into a profit-making venture. By making sure a charity checks out, those who are giving can make sure their valuable contributions reach the countless victims of this devastating natural disaster.

The mission of the Anglo-Saxon has been largely that of the soldier; but the world is making progress, we are leaving behind the barbarism of war; as civilization advances, it will learn less of war, and concern itself more with the arts of peace, and for these the massive battle-ax must be wrought into tools of finer temper.

Jason Chaffetz

You've got to speak; you've got to be able to articulate the Republican message to the American people and take that fight to the president, but you also have to bridge internally.

Tim Curry

You see, there are always purists in every, in every art form and particularly I think in, in performance arts of any kind.

You start with just some basic visual kinds of things. You give them a scent article and do a little runaway. When the dog chases the person, the person rewards the dog. It's a big party. It's a paycheck for them.

Harry Shearer

You sit around as an artist and think, 'I can do this better than these guys,' whatever the record company isn't doing at the moment. So somebody called our bluff and said, 'OK, you're the record company.

Your movies entertain, engage and enlighten, ... For your artistry and imagination, we honor you with this degree of doctor of humane letters.

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

You read these articles about rows and rows and rows of empty buildings. I haven't seen them, and I live here. There's some exaggeration.

You might call him a promiscuous sitter, ... He would sit for just about any artist in the last 10 years of his life. He sat for ... George Caleb Bingham, who was virtually an unknown artist. Adams recorded in his diary that he didn't think he was going to make a good likeness or a good picture. But as far as I am concerned, he did both.

You need forensic mathematicians, artists and psychologists as well as scientists. We're learning a little bit about all of it.

You must read his articles and books to know the mind of the donor.

Gustave Flaubert

You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form.

This is a wonderful way to help children understand that the arts are all inter-related. This artwork has evolved from the music they have heard played, how they thought and felt during that music.

Michael Jackson

This is an enormously exciting opportunity to grow content businesses that combine the unique capabilities of the internet with the art and science of traditional programming.

Jonathan Turley

This is good news for the defense only in that the government really has struggled to bring as much as possible about the art purchases into the case,

This is a true fine arts show, not an arts and crafts show. In the scope of today's world, fine art is expanding.