Famous Quotes & Sayings

One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial construct of reality television, is that the people who are recruited to be on those shows, and the people who are interested in going on those shows, basically want to be famous. Or maybe they can win a million dollars or something.

Doug Aitken

One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.

J. C. Watts

One of the chief considerations of the decorative arts galleries was that they should be suitable for the display of textiles, and for this initial exhibition we have chosen mainly textiles from the 15th through the 17th centuries,

One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a New Orleans native and recently passed away from hurricane Katrina.

One of my favorite fundraisers was Four Legs for Art. Everything had to have four legs of one kind or another. It raised money for student art scholarships.

Michael Arndt

One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

I was immediately fascinated, ... How did this child grow up and survive? The article mentioned that this was then done to other children -? this was a precedent-setting case. I was reaching for the phone when my editor called and said, 'Can you try and find this person?'

I was gonna die. I was on an artificial heart. I'll just be eternally grateful for what Keith has done for me.

Chris Cornell

I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write music and be in a band and play shows. I even got into an underground art scene. I was going to do whatever.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Ross is breathing artificial life into the peace process.

Norm Dicks

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

Jason Thompson

Movies are a unique art form, and for two hours you go the movie theatre to escape the outside world. I don't think it's fair to have to pay to watch commercials.

M. Night Shyamalan

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.

My main arteries are great. The doctor says I look great, so here I am.

Cheech Marin

My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork.

Daphne Guinness

My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.

My friends, all Hispanic girls, we went to school with the kids from North, Central and Alhambra, and we discovered we were not attuned to their level. 'Are they smarter than us?' we asked, ... I learned later about the arts and grammar. I don't want our kids to feel at a disadvantage when they reach high school.

Mark Frauenfelder

My friend Josh Glenn compiles terrific lists of genre novels from the mid-20th century. His latest is a list of the ten best adventure novels of 1966. Josh also includes the cover art of early editions of the books, which are always much better than the art on newer editions. I want to read every book in this list!

My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.

One of the things that you really have to master is just navigating through the art fair.

Eric Kandel

One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy art, for historians, and for the artists themselves.

Kevin Barry

One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative art of our time. Each series is like a 19th-century Russian novel: you need to do a lot of work in the first few episodes, just as you do in the first 50-60 pages of those books.

Albert Einstein

one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.

One by one, we can contribute to a growing national dialogue about personal values and civic ideals. One by one, we can help to revive the art of 'deep listening.' And, together, I'm confident we will discover that what can unite is so much greater than what can potentially divide,

One article that says privacy will be protected is not enough. We want clear language in each article stating privacy is important. National governments will pick and choose. They will go to wire-tapping first and get to Article 15 later.

One of the artists lives in Utah, though the Mint will not disclose the name of this artist until the final design has been approved.

Chuck D.

Of course there are all the negative reviews, which also are incredibly important. Hilton Kramer hated the work, and if he had loved it I would have wanted to commit suicide. I still remember to this day that he called me a lunatic and he said the work is the kind of trash that washed ashore when the tide of pop art went out... and I thought, Gee, if he doesn't like what I'm doing, then I must be on the right track.

Andre Breton

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Nonprofits don't have the money or time to market themselves and artists need help getting their work out.