Famous Quotes & Sayings

New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.

Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'

Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.

Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.

Anna Held

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.

Dean Karnazes

Beyond racing, I just love the art form of running, of conceiving new ideas like the 50 Marathons in 50 States in 50 Days. It's the ultimate expression of what I love to do, which is run, and travel, and see this great country.

Andrei Codrescu

There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.

Andrei Codrescu

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.

Andrei Codrescu

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.

TV is such a great medium in what it can do in terms of enlightening an audience. We can really inspire and teach people about other people. That's a powerful tool, and that's something that the arts has always been capable of doing.

Ahna O'Reilly

I do want to make powerful works of art with people, but I also just want to have fun. I've never done a romantic comedy - I'm sure it would be a blast.

Akira Suzuki

Including my nine years as a student, the majority of my life has been at Hokkaido University. After my retirement from the university in 1994, I served at two private universities in Okayama Prefecture - Okayama University of Science and Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts - before retiring from university work in 2002.

Al Jourgensen

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

Al Jourgensen

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.

Agnes Obel

My mum is a big collector of art.

Aimee Bender

I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.

Doug Aitken

We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.

Kesha

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

Kid Cudi

The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are used to that and they don't want change, they don't like change. And I get that, that's cool. Luckily for me, I'm confident in myself as an artist where I can do what I want, and as long as I'm cool with it, I'm cool with it.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

Gustave Flaubert

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Gunter Grass

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

Ben Okri

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Ben Jonson

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

This work already gets you to start questioning. Slides are (generally) projected on the wall. But this one is on the floor. It gets you to think artists are turning this very traditional medium into something they can manipulate.

The question is whether you're going to get a clean read of the deficit out there anyway. They're going to create an artificial picture.

Brian Wilson

Timothy White was the best friend an artist could ever have. The music business lost a true giant when we lost Timothy so suddenly.

Tim is experienced, he's experienced success, he's an articulate leader and he's a great-looking guy. And he has a body of work, a successful pattern.

This special spirit ... it comes from how the artists feel about their mission.

Herb Alpert

This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz and a desire to support its future, ... It gave them the opportunity to indulge in both passions - to celebrate the great artistry of Dave Brubeck, and to support the Brubeck Institute, a program at the University of the Pacific which, through its Fellowship Program and Summer Jazz Colony, serves to train and nurture the next generation of great jazz artists and innovators.

You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five years of your life to a movie, you need something to keep you going.