Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Rosenquist

Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.

Masterpieces of world art cannot be hostages in legal disputes. Just look at the list of the paintings displayed at the exhibition. These include works by Renoir, Degas and Picasso. The paintings are kept in Russia, but they belong to the whole world. They are inviolable.

Mastering the art of negotiation involves leading the other person to your conclusion while having them believe it is their idea.

Alice Meynell

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

Alice Munro

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.

Alice Munro

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

Alice Hoffman

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

Alice Hoffman

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

Ali Partovi

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

Alice Duer Miller

And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

Alice Cooper

I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.

Anne Heche

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

Anne McCaffrey

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it -- only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

Anne Lamott

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

Anne Lamott

To be great, art has to point somewhere.

Anne Lamott

You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

Anna Camp

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

Anna Camp

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

Ann Wilson

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

Andy Milonakis

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

Andy Partridge

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

Albert Camus

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

Albert Brooks

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

Albert Brooks

The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.

Albert Brooks

Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

Albert Camus

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Albert Camus

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

Albert Camus

Without freedom there is no art.

Albert Camus

I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

Albert Camus

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.