Famous Quotes & Sayings

Storytelling is a folk art. All folks do it. It's how we stay connected to each other. It's art because it can be elevated to a very sophisticated level.

Robert Stromberg

Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.

Judy Gold

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

Jonathan Swift

So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Ben Jonson

Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb.

Simon McBurney

So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'

Douglas Sirk

Now in theory, if there is no straight line in the universe, this has its effect on art. Art must consist of something bent, something curved.

Oscar Wilde

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.

SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of words.His bad opponent's ""facts"" he sweeps away, And drags his sophistry to light of day; Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort To falsehood of so desperate a sort. Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast, He lies most lightly who the least is pressed. --Polydore Smith

So much video art is passive. What I like about Cynthia's work is that you interact with it. That's what makes it exciting.

So much of this mall is a tribute to Mars. It's nice to have a monument to art and culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.

Ben Wallace

Team basketball is a lost art nowadays, but it's always going to win. You can win in the regular season, but if you don't play together as a team it's going to be tough to win in the playoffs teams. And I think now teams are starting to recognize that.

John Milton

Sabrina fair, / Listen where thou art sitting/ Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, / In twisted braids of lilies knitting / The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

John Burnside

Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.

Right now we don't know a lot. Both sides are talking and who knows what the art of negotiation is.

Pretty much every metro system seems to have some kind of art program, whether it is commissioning permanent or temporary projects, ... Platform for Art.

Santa Fe is perfect for bikes because it's compact. It would be a dream of mine to go downtown one Saturday morning and see a couple hundred people on bikes going from art gallery to coffee shop. Someday I hope it will happen.

Sarah joined a group of art students who petitioned the administration to find places in the expanded school building that were appropriate for artistic expression.

Schwartz hurt us inside the second half, but it's hard to defend everything when you move the ball around like Assumption does. Passing like that is a lost art in high school, but Assumption shows a lot of skill doing it.

Public art is out in the open and forces you to be aware it. It's hard to ignore something that is in your face and foreign to your everyday routine.

Public art brings variety, energy and life to our public spaces. The One Percent for Art Program compliments this town's thriving art community and it serves as a testimonial to our elected officials' dedication to the city's cultural heritage and vision for the future.

Public Art ain't for the feint of heart.

Put your instrument into the hands of your Art and never your Art into the hands of your instrument!

Quilting has become an art. We're dedicated not only to old-fashioned piecing but also to develop awareness of fabrics and textiles as art forms.

These are all state of the art technologies. It's a very stable and non-toxic system.

Mark Ruffalo

The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art.

The Scholastics program is the oldest and largest student art awards program in the country.

Grace Slick

The same person is coming through in a different medium, ... My art is simple, direct and definite.

William Saroyan

The role of art is to make a world which can be tolerated.