Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jet Li

I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know... But Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts film to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope the world will become.

Kevin Allen

I think at that point, down to final four, Trump was looking for a specific thing, ... He just couldn't find a way to articulate that when it came time to fire me.

Michael Flatley

I think as an artist I strive to make people feel things, and move people, and I think that's what this show does.

Jeff Koons

I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church. Then they were supported also by the state.

Robert Pinsky

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

Daniel Breaker

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

Jeff Tweedy

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

Jenny Lewis

I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

P. J. O'Rourke

When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

Oscar Wilde

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Oscar Wilde

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

Oscar Wilde

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Brent Weeks

I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

Bonnie Langford

I love Monet: his 'Water Lilies' would look great on my wall. But would I prefer to see money helping kids get better from cancer rather than spending it on a work of art for my own personal indulgence? Yes, I probably would.

Bob Beamon

Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.

Bob Beamon

My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that hard work and inspiration will always be the foundation for success.

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.