Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Kay

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

Robin Tunney

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Rodney Brooks

I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Roger McGuinn

I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.

Rolf Harris

As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just as stunning as she had done in my first year at art school.

Orlando Bloom

Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.

Mia Wasikowska

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

Melanie Laurent

When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.

Peter Singer

I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty.

Paul Hawken

We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes artificial flavoring and sugar for apple juice? What kind of businesses have we created when we even lie to infants?'

Paul Emsley

Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.

If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.

Patrick Kavanagh

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.

Patricia Polacco

My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

Pierce Brosnan

Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.

Pierce Brosnan

I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.

We are delighted to have Matthew on board. We believe that he brings a great deal of energy and enthusiasm for the arts to this position, and we're looking forward to creating wonderful new programs to support the arts in our community.

We'll have a group of artists in different locations outside the center, painting in different mediums. A lot of people like to watch artists work.

Well, of course, we have our First Friday next Friday evening, March 3 rd, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.. Our featured artist is D. G. Womack of Eureka Springs. An opportunity to visit with her, see her artwork we have displayed and enjoy refreshments. First Fridays are always fun.

Chris Carrabba

Well never ever be as good on record as we are live because were not a full band unless those kids are there. We ride the ripples of that emotional tide like at a movie theatre. If theres any artistry to what I do, any gift that I have, its that somehow Ive been able to tap into that. People have told me that I guide it. I dont think so I think I ride itThats what Ill miss most when its all over. But maybe Ill just go to more movies.

Lance Armstrong

Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues, ... (This) article is nothing short of tabloid journalism.

E. F. Schumacher

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

Mark McGrath

We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier.

Today, we have in our immediate family entertainers, a computer specialist, teachers, an artist and a businessman.

Douglas Coupland

To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.

Thought is more important than art. . . . To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

William Shakespeare

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

Hannah Ware

I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.

Hussein Chalayan

I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.

Hussein Chalayan

I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.

Holly Black

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.

Whether it has been transformed from commercial fad to artistic recognition is very much in the air.