Famous Quotes & Sayings

William McDonough

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

William McDonough

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

Virginia Postrel

Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light.

Vivienne Westwood

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

Vincent Bugliosi

I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.

I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.

Zubin Mehta

I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

Yayoi Kusama

In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.

Yayoi Kusama

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

Yayoi Kusama

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

Will Durant

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

Colin Angle

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

Claire Forlani

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

Chris Bangle

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

Chet Faker

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

Eve Ensler

I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.

Ellen Key

The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.

Elaine Stritch

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

David Byrne

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.

Adrian Belew

I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

Adrian Grenier

I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it.

Adam Shankman

I've always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.

Adam Smith

The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.

Adam Smith

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Adam Smith

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

Adam Leipzig

In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.

Adam Phillips

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Adam Levine

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

Adam McKay

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

Adam Lambert

I like adding little elements into the final mix. I'm more fond of the '70s glam than '80s. I have that style of vocals... there are a lot of pop artists who are using the glam vibe in their music. I'm part of that wave.

Adam Lambert

I never really listen to what people say. My thing is that my favorite artists are artists that are theatrical. Obviously when you are doing a recording, things aren't gonna translate as over-the-top.