Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Denis Diderot

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

Denis Diderot

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small- minded.

Denis Diderot

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

Deborah Smith

Simon Collinson, of digital publisher Canelo and über-cool Aussie mag The Lifted Brow, is our digital producer; Sarah Shin, Verso's comms director, is helping us out with press publicity; Soraya Gilanni, who mainly does production and set design for films and commercials, is our art director.

Deborah Smith

So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language, style, content, and often its author's gender. To publish it properly, in a way that makes it clear that this is art, not anthropology. To spotlight the importance of translation in making cultures less dully homogenous.

Debra Winger

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

Debra Messing

I just think of couture clothing as wearable art. So from - to that extent I, you know, I love having the opportunity to just even be able to touch and look at, you know, these pieces of design. In terms of, you know, is it stressful and does it take a lot of time. It's mostly stressful because you're there because you're nominated.

Deana Carter

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

Edgar Allan Poe

I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

Edgar Allan Poe

All works of art should begin... at the end.

Edgar Allan Poe

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Edgar Allan Poe

To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.

Elbert Hubbard

Art is nothing; it's a way.

Elbert Hubbard

Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.

Elbert Hubbard

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

Elbert Hubbard

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Elbert Hubbard

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Eleanor Roosevelt

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

Efraim Zuroff

People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice, they are only interested in art, not in justice.

Egon Schiele

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Egon Schiele

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.

Egon Schiele

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Egon Schiele

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

Egon Schiele

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Egon Schiele

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

Eduardo Chillida

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

Edvard Munch

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

Edvard Munch

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

Edvard Munch

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.