Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist...

Diana Ross

Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.

Diana Vreeland

The personality is a work of art.

Diana Vreeland

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

Diane Ackerman

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

Diane Ackerman

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts ...

Diane Ackerman

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

Desiderius Erasmus

It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the first place who does not see what dignity they confer on style by their antiquity alone?... And so to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour.

Delphine Arnault

I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey.

Delphine Arnault

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.

Demian Bichir

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

Demian Bichir

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

Demi Lovato

I was judgmental of artists who were exploring their sexuality, and I thought, Why are they doing that? They don't have to. They've got a good voice.

Demi Lovato

When you're an artist, you have a platform that can reach millions.

Demetri Martin

If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.

Robert Gottlieb

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

Yes, a black belt should be able to execute precise, effective, beautiful, and technically proficient martial arts techniques, whatever the style. But just as importantly, a black belt should be able to execute precise and beautiful ideas, equal to or better than their physical techniques. A black belt should have an attitude equal in its brilliance to his or her physical skills.

world art treasures cannot be hostages of legal quarrels.

E. O. Wilson

Works of art are all that survive of incredibly gifted people.

Jessica Clark

Work out really hard and be confident because bodies are beautiful, sensual and natural. I've also trained in Wushu, a form of martial arts - it's very beautiful and flowy, and it's predominantly used in fight scenes in movies, which is how it was introduced to me, and I just love it.

With the high percentage of Spanish speakers, we wanted these kids to have an artistic outlet, too.

Nicolas Cage

With my goal to make a family drama and also my artistic aspirations of doing things which are a bit edgy, I've gotten a really happy marriage in 'The Weather Man', ... Gore went outside the box and did something personal and artistic, but at the same time it hits all the right notes in terms of children that may be going through a divorce, or a husband and wife dealing with it in a way that's not Pollyanna or saccharine or B.S. I haven't made that many movies like it. I know I've never made a movie as individual as 'The Weather Man' in dealing with family issues.

We're extremely excited to have Lisa on board. Her communications and arts promotion background, as well as her exposure to the national and local poetry communities, will prove hugely beneficial to us.

We're hoping this is an art program that will both be appreciated and coordinated with the structure.

We're not asking to get him removed. It's not about him. The article is a symptom of a larger issue.

Raine Maida

We're being not overprotective but special, and careful, about it because it is special. We don't want it to get lost in the shuffle of the Christmas (rush). We want everything to be right, whether it's the artwork or the title. We're quite precious about it, but I think that's good.

We're being cautious with Barnett. He's having a little pain in his arm. But Artie (Morales) was a starter early in the season, and we're confident with him in there.

Marc Roberge

We're basically capturing that same emotion. I think a lot of folks miss out on the art of things these days, so we're gonna try to find it.

William Shakespeare

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

William Shakespeare

O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!

William Shakespeare

Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere

William Shakespeare

O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

William Shakespeare

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.