Famous Quotes & Sayings

This should put some steel in their spine. Canadians overwhelmingly understand that musicians and other artists are harmed by illegal file-swapping and deserve better protection under the law.

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

James Schuyler

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

To be able to have the parents come in and see, while the children are learning the ballet, their parents are either in the waiting room or watching the kids, they have the opportunity to go in the art gallery or just look around, see the theatre and the same with the Head Start.

Bob Richards

The person who's writing and performing those songs wants to get to know the fans even more. Find out how close that song is to their real life, what it means to them. The earlier in the process that we can start connecting those artists with fans, the better.

John Glover

The power that an artist can have to move people, I just want to equip myself better with those kind of skills. I see myself as a character actor, not as a leading actor, and in something like ""Time of Your Life,"" I'm being asked to strengthen my chops and take some responsibilities. There's some kind of deepening that needs to be done.

Amity Gaige

When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.

There are a handful of American-born, Hispanic artists out there performing this (country) music, but like everything else in this business, the big stars are few and far between.

There are 25 years of PC industry and 40 years of computer industry history that says there is never enough performance. My article in faith is that you will never have enough computing performance for things you want to do. Having said that, there are clever software people somewhere who are thinking of even cleverer things to do.

Chris Riddell

There are loads of fan sites for the 'Edge,' including deviant art, song lyrics using 'Edge' language, multiple entries on Wikipedia, there are even some 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' games all about the 'Edge.'

Tom Glavine

There are issues that go beyond some of the things said in that article. John should have a chance to explain himself and show that the way he was portrayed in the article was not his real mindset.

Robbie Robertson

When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and music. And then it went away.

William T. Vollmann

There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but wonder - 'What are the people I know going to think about this?' So I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space.

Robert Wilson

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

The reason why I choose stones as the raw material for my art is the unique texture of the earthly creations burnished after tens of thousands of years. They are nature's most refined works. And my job is to feel and bring out the life of this natural work of art.

Charlie Trotter

There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.

Louis C. K.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

Damien Hirst

Whenever I go to another city to do an art exhibition, the only way to get through it is to get drunk, because it's so similar to the last one.

Raina Telgemeier

When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!

Jackson Pollock

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things -- creating molding the earth -- whether it be the plains of the west -- or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction -- some with a brush -- some with a shovel -- some choose a pen.

Jeff Fisher

We're requiring they stay off the ground to celebrate. If they are on the ground, they have to get up. They can't use the ball as a prop, they can't use anything else as an artificial prop.

We thought this would be a really neat way to celebrate our partnership and acknowledge an art dedicated to children.

We're not into going into the political part of this. It's for the benefit of everybody to have an arts center for the neighborhood.

Why should a female hip-hop artist have to spend time in an urban concrete jungle while other female prisoners are assigned to rural, suburban-type prison camps?

Don Ellis

Why should a craftsman not make use of all his tools if they will promote a greater communication and expressiveness? This is not to deny that beautiful things can be fashioned out of very modest means, but what possible objection can there be towards an artist trying to be more resourceful?

Elizabeth Banks

You have got to have an agent, ... It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

Steven Blum

'Toonami' was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.

Too many people only thought of Capote as this odd, little man who showed up on talk shows during the '70s. This movie helps people remember that he was a very serious artist and writer, not just some self-absorbed celebrity.

This year we welcomed artists from Hollywood to Hong Kong and everywhere in between.

This year, we decided to look back and to honor and showcase some of the artists who came up during that time and team them with the rising stars that people always love to see at the festival.

Andre Dawson

This year, there's a window for a few players. But you read articles where they say that this might be the year where no one will get in. It's just hard to say.

This year the Q awards highlighted two things; that 2005 has been a vintage year for music in the UK and that the power of the music and artists that Q has always championed remains undimmed.

This town is so attractive for art types. It's the easygoing lifestyle with a cultural cast to it.