Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ad Reinhardt

I was drafted in '45 and I was a sailor for a year. They didn't know what to do with me so they made a sort of photographer out of me.

Howard Finster

And since they wasn't able to turn my art over, I sort of just switched off to Phyllis Kind, she's really my agent. She has a gallery in Chicago.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

Bill Sienkiewicz

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

Edward Hopper

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Andrew Wyeth

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Jonathan Miller

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

Sigmar Polke

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

Peter Gabriel

People go on and on about the copyright issue, and that is central to what is going on now. Someone sent me an article from the Register this morning about this person named Fisher who has proposed an extra $6 per month on every broadband user's bill that would supply enough revenue to pay all the money that is earned from records and films.

Jake Wien

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.

Eric Liu

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

Roz Chast

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Iman Iman

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

Bob Clark

The mural would've been part of the overall design of an individual building. The concept behind the art program was to give artists jobs, too.

Richard Klein

After 40,000 years ago, the art is unquestionable,

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Tamsin Greig

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Levi Stukes

We need to come together even more now since we're in a downfall.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

MacGyver MacGyver

Desperation tends to make one sort of flexible.

Andrew Harrington

This is the time of year when stockpiles should be rising. We're in that sort of in-between period. Winter is sort of over and summer hasn't really started.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Danielle Panabaker

To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space - that sort of thing.

Elizabeth McCracken

I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.

Gary Thomas

This is overreaction. It won't make a difference. They'll turn 18, but they'll still be inexperienced.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Author unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.