Quotes about art
arts donations people possible proves strong support thank wilson
We would like to thank all the people who made it possible for us to go and compete. We couldn't do this without the donations from the Wilson community. It really proves that there is a strong support for the arts here.
artists eye might notebooks police school work
We work with the school police a lot when it comes to graffiti, because most of the graffiti artists are juveniles. They keep an eye in the schools, look at the writing on the notebooks ... and they get a feel for who might be doing these.
art independent rights
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
art hate school
One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living. Kurt Vonnegut
art literature score
Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
artist long poison
Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.
art soul helping
You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.
art hurt college
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
art mad hot
The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.
art bird coal
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.
art tortoises hares
The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.
art writing thinking
So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.
art say-anything social
Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.
art thinking vocabulary
I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?
artist appreciate people
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.
art forgiving sides
No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
art way breakfast-of-champions
The arts are not a way to make a living,
art art-is
No art is possible without a dance with death.
art practice soul
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
art way breakfast-of-champions
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.
art dark light
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places. Barbra Streisand
art stills
Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest. William Shakespeare
art cutting throat
thou art the best o' the cut-throats
art drug apothecary
true apothecary thy drugs art quick
art angel night
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven
art hamlet-and-ophelia matter
More matter with less art.
art book eye
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.
art philosophy history
I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
art eggs sides
Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.
art greatness men
If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great. Laurence Sterne
art challenges meant
This will be a show that challenges you. This is part of what art is meant to do.
art fear fall
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. David Letterman
artist people trying
Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth. David Geffen