Famous Quotes & Sayings

Siri Hustvedt

I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I also write essays about visual art.

I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going to work. Ever since I was in art school, I would read and get ideas. Sometimes the photograph sparks an idea in me, and I continue in that direction.

I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.

Don Bluth

I have been involved with script approval, approvals of character designs and the art direction, on kind of a consultant basis.

I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very small aspects of human life. I like movies that have a very narrow focus. I can see how it might be viewed as limiting, but I don't experience it that way.

Megan McCafferty

I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission.

Esha Gupta

I have a very broad-minded family. Acting is an art, and we understand that.

Roberta Flack

I have my own charity I am trying to get off the ground as well, which some of my concerts go toward funding, ... I am building a school-the Roberta Flack School of Music-in two brownstones I purchased in New York City. The purpose is to help other young musician artists just as I received good teaching and help from my family and friends back home.

Charles Hazlewood

I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not in the club, they're not going to let you join. It's like The Turin Shroud: don't touch it because it might fall apart.

Joan Smalls

I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, 'The Artist is Present', in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.

James Buckley

I felt it was too much of a struggle to have a career in the arts. I wanted to be able to retire one day . . . an arts career has no guarantees, no pensions and is too risky. I always knew I would return to dental school.

Miranda Lambert

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

I feel like I am being put on notice that the number of shows with artistic excellence is going to be far greater than when we started in 1989. And that means the festival has done its job.

Rebecca Sugar

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.

Margaret Keane

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

Alafair Burke

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

If Ireland wants to produce high-paid, high-productivity jobs in the future we need state of the art IT infrastructure.

Harry Hamlin

I first decided I wanted to be an artist when I was 7 or 8. I won a citywide contest and then later I won the high school division of the South Plains Fair at Lubbock Coronado.

Carl Andre

I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.

Connor Franta

I find a lot of up-and-coming musicians I enjoy, present them to my viewers - and hopefully inflate the growth of these artists by putting them in front an audience that wouldn't have been aware of them.

Bill Watterson

If cartoonists would look at this more as an art than as a part time job or a get-rich-quick scheme, I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.

I feel like there is an underappreciation for ball gowns. You see them on the runway, but they rarely ever get worn, so there is something special and unique in getting to wear these creations; it's wearable art.

Zack Rocha

I feel that it is now necessary to leave Rage because our decision-making process has completely failed. It is no longer meeting the aspirations of all four of us collectively as a band, and from my perspective, has undermined our artistic and political ideal.

Ving Rhames

I feel that being an artist is about giving, and I'd like to give this to you, Mr. Jack Lemmon,

Will Eisner

I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of 'moving uptown,' becoming an illustrator or a gallery painter, or those others who said, 'I'm going to go uptown and be a writer, I'm going to work for The New Yorker one day and escape this ghetto.' For me, there was no escape.

James McCartney

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

Iggy Pop

I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist who works off other people best. It was like playing with Tinker toys or dominoes, trying to get all the pieces to fit like a jigsaw puzzle so I'd have a whole portrait but it would still have many facets.

Mike Bass

I can't say enough for what I learned at that point about the art of negotiation, about how state government really works, ... And in the end, it's not something that's all that abnormal. It's a process of compromise and consensus because for the budget to get done, you need that.

I can't find a significant national politician who really will take a major stand for the arts because there's not much political capital in it and in fact there may be some downside,

Brandon Thomas

If I wasn't a musician I could find something else... maybe an artist or a painter because I still do all that. Or possibly a writer.

Philippe Petit

I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.

CeeLo Green

I have done quite a few things that I'm not proud of. But now I can equate it to artistry without an outlet. At school, I couldn't help but colour outside the lines. My passion just caused my reactions to be that much more volatile.

Vanilla Ice

I don't hate on any artist actually, not on boy bands, on nothing, it's just music and if you enjoy it then enjoy it. I just have my own opinion of what I like and so should everybody else. I don't try and make everybody else believe in my opinion, everybody's born differently you know, God created us all different.