Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beck

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Beck

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

Barry McGee

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

Barry McGee

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched

Richard Briers

We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.

Steve Frank

We no longer need a big house and the burden of maintaining it and a yard. At The Ascent, we would be within minutes of the symphony, art galleries, great restaurants and my office.

We never 'made' a star, ... but we gave a lot of artists an opportunity for exposure. A singer has to do a lot of work in smoke-filled bars to be a good singer.

We live in such a cynical, postmodern society that if you are offended by something like this, people say, 'Lighten up, it's ironic, it's a joke.' And that's really nice if you're a student of art history. But how many 10-year-olds talk about irony? When you get teased, it doesn't make it any better to know that they're also calling it ironic. It sends the message that it's hip to make fun of Asians.

James Norton

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.

Doug Aitken

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.

Billy Corgan

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

Billy Corgan

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

Billy Corgan

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

Bill Sienkiewicz

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

Bill Sienkiewicz

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

Bill Sienkiewicz

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

Bill Sienkiewicz

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

Bill Dixon

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

Bill Crawford

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.

Bill Cosby

...among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!

Big Sean

To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.

Big Sean

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

Big Sean

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.

Berthe Morisot

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

C. S. Lewis

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

C. S. Lewis

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.

C. S. Lewis

A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

C. S. Lewis

A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.

C. S. Lewis

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

C. S. Lewis

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

C. S. Lewis

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.