Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Lunt

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

Alfred Kazin

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

Alfred Kazin

I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.

Alfred Kinsey

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

Alfred Jarry

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

Alexander Dubcek

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

Alexander Calder

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

Alexander Calder

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

Alexander Calder

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

Alexander Calder

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

Alexander Calder

Above all, art should be fun.

Alexander Calder

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Alexander Calder

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.

Alexander Calder

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

Alexander Cockburn

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

Alexander Alekhine

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Alexander Alekhine

For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction. I see this aim as being scientific and artistic achievements, which place the game of chess on a par with other arts.

Alexander Alekhine

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

Alexander Alekhine

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Alcuin

Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

Albrecht Durer

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .

Albrecht Durer

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.

Albrecht Durer

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

Albrecht Durer

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

Albrecht Durer

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.

Albrecht Durer

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Albrecht Durer

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Albrecht Durer

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Alden Ehrenreich

Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.