Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

Elinor Wylie

I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!

Eliphas Levi

All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

Eleanora Duse

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

Eleanora Duse

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul

Eleanora Duse

To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

Eleanora Duse

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

Eleanora Duse

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

Eleanora Duse

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

Elfriede Jelinek

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Elfriede Jelinek

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Deepak Chopra

Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.

Dominic Monaghan

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

Dirk Benedict

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

Dirk Benedict

It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.

Dionne Warwick

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

Dionne Warwick

All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

The principal of PS 58 has been reassigned pending an investigation into a possible breach of the English Language Arts exam at the school. If the investigation finds the test was compromised, the results will be invalidated by the state Education Department.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

The primordial experiences that are transmitted through art and history are not to be grasped from the points of view of these forms of consciousness.

Jonathan Edwards

To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low

David Bowie

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

David Bowie

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

David Bowie

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.

David Bowie

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

David Bowie

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

David Bowie

If you come from art, you'll always be art.

David Nicholls

The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.

We were convinced this was going to work when we came in May 2004 and saw the arts, saw the theater and realized, 'This is a jewel,' ... Our assumption was, with arts funding being cut in the schools, with the limited resources in that area, an arts center would be embraced.

Aharon Appelfeld

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Ahmed Best

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Whatever other children learn in a year, let Bahá’í children learn in a month. The heart of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá longeth, in its love, to find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainments. There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.

Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end. The more ye persevere in this most important task, the more will ye witness the confirmations of God, to such a degree that ye yourselves will be astonished.

Abdul Kalam

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.