Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Eno

W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.

Brian Eno

People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye. Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

Brian Eno

The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quite extreme emotional experiences watching a movie, but they stop as soon as you walk out of the cinema. You can see people being hurt, but even though you feel those things strongly, you know they’re not real.

Brian Eno

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

Brian Eno

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

Brian Eno

I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.

Brian Eno

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

Brian Eno

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

Brian Eno

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

Brian Eno

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Brian Eno

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Brian Eno

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

Bret Michaels

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

Brent Weeks

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

Brandi Carlile

I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.

Brandi Carlile

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

Brandon Cox

Discipleship is the art and science of helping people find, follow and fully become like Jesus. Discipleship happens as God's people show love, share truth and live life with one another, making new disciples along the way.

Brandon Boyd

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

Brandon Boyd

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Brandon Boyd

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

Brandon Boyd

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

Brandon Boyd

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

Brandon Boyd

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

Bootsy Collins

I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

Bootsy Collins

Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.

Boris Kodjoe

I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.

Boris Kodjoe

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Boris Kodjoe

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

Booker T. Washington

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Bob Colacello

I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which Andy had conceived of. I've never taken a picture since, not even with my phone! It just felt too Andy Warhol to keep going around town taking photographs. And I never really thought of doing anything with them after I left the magazine until this great Art Director Sam Shahid about for or five years ago asked where all of the old photos were.

Bob Colacello

He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.

Bob Colacello

Fortunately I had a great intern who did a lot of the research on Andy's prices, which of course are phenomenal, but getting them straight - you know, he's reached this $100million plateau that only a handful of other artists have reached, which puts him in the company of Cezanne, Klimt, Picasso, and such.

Bob Colacello

A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.