Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description.

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

Many artists that I met don't know what existentialism is. But it is these things that contribute to the most deep-inside spirit of my works.

Seventy percent of the people with arthritis don?t take their medications. Fifty percent of the people with diabetes don?t take their medications.

Jane Rosenthal

Sept. 11 was the most photographed event in the world. The media has shown it over and over again. Over time, artists have digested it. I think it's very important to see filmmakers' point of view. Why not now?

Jane Alexander

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.

So here comes the allegorical artwork via Van Dyke's metaphorical lyrics,

Software patents are a mess, ... Even if you don't believe in abolishing them entirely, there have been far too many examples of patents being granted even in light of overwhelming evidence of prior art and of dusty old patents on their third owner suddenly being used for a form of blackmail.

So it's fun to be on the ground floor of understanding what artists will be doing in the years to come.

Ella Wilcox

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs

Diane Wakoski

So, I think that what we're always doing is redefining the possibilities of beauty, but, don't get me wrong, I think that all of art is about beauty.

Joey Skaggs

So I began doing confrontational, iconoclastic performances, bringing my artwork into the public arena, like the Easter Sunday Crucifixion in 1966, which started when I dragged a 200-pound ten-foot-tall sculpture depicting a decayed figure on a cross into Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side.

George Bernard Shaw

Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

So many of the organizations created during that time have continued to flourish and stay fresh and interesting through generations of arts lovers,

She's the first lady who has mastered the art of kimono making and she donated about forty pieces to Koji, and he is expressing it into the European draping. It's wrapping.

She was a super teacher, ... She was so crippled with arthritis that when the students went to the playground, she couldn't go with us, but when we came back in she knew who had misbehaved, who had been fighting. There were lots of teenage boys still at Miller because they were from farming families and had to miss so much school, but those big boys never gave her any trouble. When she sent them to bring her a switch, they knew they'd better not bring her a little one.

She's very authentic. She's involved in opera and she sees it for what it is, looking at all aspects. Like every art form, there is the pain and the joy and, of course, the peculiarities specific to that art form.

Ryan Key

She's the real deal, so it's not as lame as some other people. I hope at some point people will realize what's real and what's not real, and who's an artist and who's not, and who doesn't deserve to be.

She works way harder than we do. You see some artists who are nowhere near in their career where Dolly is, and they complain about all the stuff they have to do. She comes into a rehearsal and sings 'Coat of Many Colors' like it's the first time she ever sang it. It's changed our whole attitude.

Jeff Sessions

She will need to articulate a vision of the Constitution and the role of a judge that is sound or she could be in trouble with the Republican senators,

Dick Wolf

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

Diane Paulus

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Diane Paulus

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

Diane Paulus

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

Diane Paulus

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Diane Lane

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

Diane Kruger

I truly, genuinely like clothes. Making them is an art form, and wearing them is a form of self-expression. I find it very emotional because I can remember moments in my life - my mood, how I felt - through these clothes.

Dennis Stock

If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.

Dennis Stock

Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras, making the journey an enlightened experience. My emphasis has mainly been on affirmative reactions to human behavior and a strong attraction to the beauty in nature.

Dennis Potter

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Dennis Potter

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

Dennis Prager

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

Dennis Prager

Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages