Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Ferguson

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

Craig Ferguson

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Connie Sellecca

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.

Connie Willis

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

Conor McGregor

There's people that focus on the game and forget about the art. There's that specific special individual that can do both.

Conor McGregor

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

Coco Chanel

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Coco Chanel

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

Claire Forlani

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

Claire Messud

Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

Claire Messud

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

Clarence Day

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

Clarence Day

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain I’m feeling now. Its so bad, its useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad pain can be.

Elizabeth Kenny

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

Elizabeth Hardwick

How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great cost to themselves usually, is another mystery. Works are not created by one's life; every life is rich in material.

Elizabeth Janeway

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

Elizabeth I

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

Eli Wallach

What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium. Movies, by comparison, are like calendar art next to great paintings. You can't really do very much in movies or in television, but the stage is such an anarchistic medium.

Eli Broad

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

Eli Broad

My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

Eli Broad

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Eli Broad

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Eli Broad

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

Eli Broad

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

Eli Broad

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

Eli Broad

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

Eli Broad

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

Eli Broad

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

Eli Broad

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Elias Canetti

Learning is the art of ignoring.