Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kruger

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

Barbara Kruger

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

Barbara Kruger

But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Barbara Kruger

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

Barbara Kruger

I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

Barbara Kruger

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

Barbara Kruger

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

Barbara Jordan

The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.

Barbara Jordan

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

Barbara Kingsolver

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Barbara Kingsolver

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.

Barbara Kingsolver

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

Bai Ling

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.

Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.

The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation, bring great evil upon men. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Knowing. If carried to excess, civilization will prove as prolific a source of evil as it had been of goodness when kept within the restraints of moderation.

Ashley Wagner

I havent mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

We're helping the art world, but we're also helping the community at the same time. This is going to be a good thing for all of us.

We're happy to end our participation in this season of' Arts Nights, City Lights' with an evening of music and fun for the whole family.

Nic Pizzolatto

There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

Baruch Spinoza

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Aulis Sallinen

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

Auguste Rodin

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Auguste Rodin

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

Auguste Rodin

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

Auguste Rodin

If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.

Auguste Rodin

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

Auguste Rodin

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

Auguste Rodin

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

Auguste Rodin

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

Auguste Rodin

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Auguste Rodin

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Auguste Rodin

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.

Auguste Rodin

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.