Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Bowie

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

David Bowie

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

David Bowie

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.

David Bowie

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

David Bowie

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

David Bowie

If you come from art, you'll always be art.

David Nicholls

The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.

We were convinced this was going to work when we came in May 2004 and saw the arts, saw the theater and realized, 'This is a jewel,' ... Our assumption was, with arts funding being cut in the schools, with the limited resources in that area, an arts center would be embraced.

Aharon Appelfeld

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Ahmed Best

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Whatever other children learn in a year, let Bahá’í children learn in a month. The heart of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá longeth, in its love, to find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainments. There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.

Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end. The more ye persevere in this most important task, the more will ye witness the confirmations of God, to such a degree that ye yourselves will be astonished.

Abdul Kalam

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

Aaron Hill

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

Alan Rosenberg

We need consultation and eventually we need compensation. Whatever happened to artistic integrity? When did we lose the right to say yes or no?

Chuck D.

When you come up in the art world, whatever's in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

Andrei Kirilenko

When this article comes out, girls will be lining up outside his hotel door.

When the station was initially conceived, it was meant to do everything if they'd let the artists go crazy, they would have had the Starship Enterprise docking with it,

Abraham Lincoln

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

Abraham Lincoln

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

Abraham Lincoln

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

There are trained audiences here that respect dance as a form. Europe invests in its artists over the long haul.

William Shakespeare

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

Kenneth Langone

A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.

Larry Gagosian

Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

Larry Gagosian

The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

Larry Gagosian

I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.

Larry Gagosian

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

You have to remember that Finnish people hate art.

When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school.

Kate Ashfield

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.

Kari Wahlgren

The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.

Kate Forsyth

I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.