Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Hill

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

Alan Rosenberg

We need consultation and eventually we need compensation. Whatever happened to artistic integrity? When did we lose the right to say yes or no?

Chuck D.

When you come up in the art world, whatever's in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

Andrei Kirilenko

When this article comes out, girls will be lining up outside his hotel door.

Michael Kors

Lots of shine for evening, ... lots of ornamentation (with) a lot of Art Deco-sort-of-feeling to it because, again, I think this collection really is New York. So, automatically to me, it's the Chrysler Building.

loves the idea of kids going to see rock 'n' roll icons and seeing the Impressionists, maybe for the first time. We've done such a slick job of eliminating the arts from the schools that Allen's effort is especially important.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Harry S Truman

Leadership is the art to have people do something they dislike, and have them enjoy it

Natalie Cole

Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.

Less is more, and Moore is a bore"" was what one heard from English art students.

Maurice Jarre

Lean was a director always compromised with his work, but not only in directing, but also in the other technical and artistic aspects.

Dolly Parton

Many of the artists and musicians were already committed to family gatherings or other concert appearances, ... All of us involved want to put on the best show possible, so we decided to reschedule.

Norman Jewison

Many of our graduates have gained national and international recognition for their creative excellence. We welcome the support of the Ontario government in giving our local artists a chance to make a huge difference both here and abroad.

Paul Chambers

Many of us have seen images or read about the devastation down there. This is a tangible way for the performing arts community to get together and help out.

Many people say, 'My art will heal the people.' I always avoid 'heal the people,' ... Of course, I help people, but it's more about not harming people. An artist to me is more about inner matter.

Alex Kapranos

Many people have this perception of us being this arty band,

Many so-called artists are really products of nature's art.

Charles Stross

Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description.

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

Many artists that I met don't know what existentialism is. But it is these things that contribute to the most deep-inside spirit of my works.

Seventy percent of the people with arthritis don?t take their medications. Fifty percent of the people with diabetes don?t take their medications.

Jane Rosenthal

Sept. 11 was the most photographed event in the world. The media has shown it over and over again. Over time, artists have digested it. I think it's very important to see filmmakers' point of view. Why not now?

Jane Alexander

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.

So here comes the allegorical artwork via Van Dyke's metaphorical lyrics,

Software patents are a mess, ... Even if you don't believe in abolishing them entirely, there have been far too many examples of patents being granted even in light of overwhelming evidence of prior art and of dusty old patents on their third owner suddenly being used for a form of blackmail.

So it's fun to be on the ground floor of understanding what artists will be doing in the years to come.

Ella Wilcox

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs

Diane Wakoski

So, I think that what we're always doing is redefining the possibilities of beauty, but, don't get me wrong, I think that all of art is about beauty.

Joey Skaggs

So I began doing confrontational, iconoclastic performances, bringing my artwork into the public arena, like the Easter Sunday Crucifixion in 1966, which started when I dragged a 200-pound ten-foot-tall sculpture depicting a decayed figure on a cross into Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side.

George Bernard Shaw

Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

So many of the organizations created during that time have continued to flourish and stay fresh and interesting through generations of arts lovers,

She's the first lady who has mastered the art of kimono making and she donated about forty pieces to Koji, and he is expressing it into the European draping. It's wrapping.

She was a super teacher, ... She was so crippled with arthritis that when the students went to the playground, she couldn't go with us, but when we came back in she knew who had misbehaved, who had been fighting. There were lots of teenage boys still at Miller because they were from farming families and had to miss so much school, but those big boys never gave her any trouble. When she sent them to bring her a switch, they knew they'd better not bring her a little one.