Famous Quotes & Sayings

David McCullough

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

David McCullough

History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of it of course is about that. It's about everything. It's about life history. It's human. And we have to see it that way. We have to teach it that way. We have to read it that way. It's about art, music, literature, money, science, love - the human experience.

David LaChapelle

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

David LaChapelle

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

David LaChapelle

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

David Koechner

We do have to be a witness to our art.

David Knopfler

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

David Guetta

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

David Guetta

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

David Denby

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

David Cross

I think pornography is the only art form where you can be videotaped on a shaky handy cam sucking off a horse and be considered a star.

Dave Barry

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Dave Barry

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

Dave Barry

The average tax payer is not a big voluntary supporter of the arts. The only art that the average taxpayer buys voluntarily either has a picture of Bart Simpson on it or little suction cups on its feet so you can stick it onto a car window.

Dave Barry

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

David Sylvian

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.

David Sylvian

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

David Ruffin

Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.

David Rubenstein

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

David Puttnam

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

David R. Brower

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

David Naughton

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

Cai Guo-Qiang

For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

Caio Fonseca

When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

Caio Fonseca

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

Caio Fonseca

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

Caio Fonseca

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

Buenaventura Durruti

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

Buddy Rich

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.