Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dumas has commanded the fashion community like no other. He is erudite, artistic and wise, but somehow also a great business manager.

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.

Simon Schama

Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.

Russell Crowe

For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing around from different skill sets: the organizational ability of Ridley Scott to the precision of a Ron Howard to the artistic sensibilities of a Peter Weir... to the scope of a Tom Hooper.

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.

Kenny Leon

August's accomplishments are unsurpassed - to me, the only writer to come close is Shakespeare, ... He has been the epitome of American theater for the last 23 years. He's defined it. His plays not only serve an artistic purpose, but they also serve a social purpose because they look at ourselves as Americans.

Stewart Cink

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

Through the exhibit, you can see changes in Michelangelo as a man, and some of the core artistic elements that remained stable.

I've told Jim that our commitment to him is for as long as he was alive, which I hope is a long time. We want Jimmy to conduct as much as he is able and willing to do so here. I think the Met is the luckiest opera house in the world to have him as its music director and I hope that he will be at the center of its artistic life for the foreseeable future. It would be a terrible blow for me and my plans if he was not here.

Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world.

Robert Gottlieb

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

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?

Placido Domingo

Becoming artistic director at L.A. Opera feels less like a major change in my life there than a kind of upgrading,

He's a man of immense artistic talents masquerading as a down-home boy,

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.

Mary Cassatt

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

Nick Hornby

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

Dan Futterman

Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.

John Updike

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

Steve Erickson

The notion of artistic responsibility begs questions with no satisfactory conclusions, the most inevitable and ineffectual being that we should just keep thinking and talking about it, given that the alternative - a governmental body monitoring the movies we make and see - is unacceptable.

Greg Daniels

The basic artistic guideline of the show is to be observational and find the humor in real life, so it's good to be from a real place.

It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste.

Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.

This pattern is not merely about new applications. It's about a revolution in how we create, share and refine anything that can be digitally encoded -- be it news and information, artistic forms, scientific breakthroughs, personal communications, economic transactions, and, yes, even software. This is not Web 2.0. It's World 2.0.

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.

It seems to be a prudent thing to do to look at alternatives if in fact the ground zero site is not going to work out, ... The Drawing Center, like any cultural institution, stands for artistic freedom.

It's artistic and I know people who do film.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.