Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaiah Berlin

There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision... and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.

With the high percentage of Spanish speakers, we wanted these kids to have an artistic outlet, too.

Nicolas Cage

With my goal to make a family drama and also my artistic aspirations of doing things which are a bit edgy, I've gotten a really happy marriage in 'The Weather Man', ... Gore went outside the box and did something personal and artistic, but at the same time it hits all the right notes in terms of children that may be going through a divorce, or a husband and wife dealing with it in a way that's not Pollyanna or saccharine or B.S. I haven't made that many movies like it. I know I've never made a movie as individual as 'The Weather Man' in dealing with family issues.

Cass McCombs

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.

P. J. O'Rourke

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

James Bailey

What he did in the artistic field is what a lot of Japan's top name manufacturers did in their field.

Bruce Davison

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.

A personality that has contributed, in far away and difficult years, to spread and popularize in Italy the extraordinary artistic strength of jazz.

Mario Batali

Nothing that would be as artistic as any of the four restaurants I have in the city. If I was to do anything in Las Vegas, for instance, it would have to be... idiot-proof. And I still haven't decided if I'm capable of that.

David Strathairn

It's really a presentation of life, as it was at that moment, in a really artistic way. Everything was double-sourced. George was determined to do this as a journalist.

Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in a diverse and democratic world.

John Williams

They are in touch with some part of the child in them, which is where artistic endeavors really kind of live. You can get back to that child state of imagining what can't be. I think we go a long way toward making the first step in good creative and good artistic work.

We didn't steer away from the Karla thing this year. We've seen the film. It was just that we decided, for artistic reasons, that we didn't want to screen it.

This is truly a remarkable evening where artistic achievements are honored, talents are recognized and future aspirations are encouraged.

Dorothy L. Sayers

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Guy Pearce

I have real dilemmas at times in trying to understand what I really think about the things that are in films and how people respond to them. I flip back and forth from going, "It's a slice of life. This happens in life. A film is an artistic venture. It's expressing life, so why not?

Andrea Seigel

If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.

If we want to go global, the focus has to be on the quality. It's a trial-and-error process whose end-result is an artistic creation of refined quality. Each item, no matter whether it's for collection or personal use, has to be perfect.

Richard Ernst

I had the great luck to grow up, together with two sisters, in a town that combined in a unique way artistic and industrious activities.

Rita Ora

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

Robert Gottlieb

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

Alfred Enoch

By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!

Nick Cave

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director.

The typical person here is retired, probably has an interest in the outdoors and plants, and an interest in the Japanese culture a lot of times. It doesn't take a lot of experience to do bonsai well, but it does take a little bit of an artistic eye.

These are artistic professionals who have spent a great deal of time and money learning their art. Unfortunately, they often need to perform for several symphonies and opera houses at a time.

This is original art, and some of the people are great and some are awful, but (the Fringe) is a place you can be awful. . . . And the people choose who they want to see. . . . (The Fringe) gives the local community -- the artistic underground -- a chance to really do their stuff. And for people like me, it's great, because I'm trying to work a show out that I can tour with.

are much more artistic and vibrant now than the cinema.

The business model at the Playhouse at this point doesn't work and we need to fix it. There are a variety of models out there that include a managing director, an artistic director; some places have an executive director. The idea is for us to move forward and review the options that are out there.

Jacques Chirac

Now it is the last party to share the friendship Ballet Company of Opera de Paris is the last bouquet we present to China. Because of the company's high reputation of its artistic style and professionalism in the world as well as its long history and powerful artistic vitality, it is the ideal representative to bring down the curtain of Year of France,

Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Jonathan Demme

All my life I have been in love with film and music, and this feels like the best opportunity I have ever had to work with a fusion of the two artistic mediums,