Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

Rocco Buttiglione

The care and defence of our cultural and artistic heritage isn't only the state's responsibility. It is every Italian's, ... Italians must care for the great art they have around them today or it may not be there for future generations.

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.

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.

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.

Ian Somerhalder

I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

Joel Kinnaman

I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'

I am pleasantly surprised at the wealth of artistic talent that has had a connection to South Jersey, either historic or present day. But I am even more surprised that we continue to learn of more such artists and entertainers every year. Any region of any state would be proud to be associated with artists of such stature.

I believe in this community and its artistic roots, and (I) want to be part of an organization that makes a difference in the lives of residents and artists.

I don't make plans. All my life, one artistic impulse has simply led me to another.

It was an unprecedented archaeological find for a single artist. I don't think there's ever been a more self-documented artistic life.

It's a problem around the world, but it's particularly bad in Latin America. Pirated goods are freely available throughout the region, and it's killing legitimate jobs and stifling artistic creation.

I've always had agriculture in my blood. And I've always wanted to do something artistic. I've never been able to draw or paint. But with bonsai I did it. This is what I'm good at. I like the artistic element and the teaching element.

Emily Watson

I wanted to do something artistic with my life but I didn't think I wanted to be an actor, so I went to university and majored in English literature.

Susanne Bier

I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film.

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.

Kathe Kollwitz

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

Stephen Sondheim

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

The film is very humorous and fun to watch. It's well crafted and has a well conceived artistic twist.

Harold Prince

All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.

The mainstream opinion was that the Egyptians were importing it from Mesopotamia. In Egypt, we had only evidence that they were making it into artistic objects.

Karl Urban

There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.

Gavin Hood

You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore how can I direct women? I am also only 42, therefore how can I direct someone who's 60? So you see where the argument ends up? If you take it to its logical conclusion, I would have to walk around and point a video camera at myself. And who the hell is interested in that?

Sinead O'Connor

I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed.

Henri Matisse

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

Heather O'Neill

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

Richard MacDonald

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

Vincent Van Gogh

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

Wilhelm Reich

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.