Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Foster

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

Julia Cameron

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.

Joe Strummer

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

Raf Simons

Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.

Dan Rooney

You better talk to Art about that. I know what it is, but let him explain it to you.

David Blaine

Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

Every spring in March, we have a district technology showcase, and the digital art is displayed there. But we've never had people casting ballots to select pieces that would go on to the conference.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo.

As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown.

Lily Cole

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

As the best of the plants thou art reputed, O herb, turn this man for me to-day into a eunuch that wears his hair dressed!

Piet Mondrian

As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things.

Cameron Russell

At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.

At the time it was making all these crazy short bits of entertainment, the things that ran between videos. They were just these wildly creative labs for people who had gone to art and film school. There were no rules and there were no clients; it was a really free and exciting environment.

Computer models are like a model car: Sometimes they're perfect and work well, but some models don't get it right. Forecasting is both an art and a science, just like medicine isn't an exact science.

Conservation is a meeting of art and science.

DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.

Derek Sivers

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it has become a lazy profession in regard to its relationship to the artists and the vigorous state of art making.

Contemporary art plays a very important role and will play a bigger role, but our mission is to bring the best of the world's art through time and space.

Mike Huckabee

Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.

Marina Abramovic

I think 21st century should be art without objects.

Marina Abramovic

I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself.

Marina Abramovic

I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.

There are art forms we don't know about yet that will be enabled by technology we haven't invented yet.

Maria Semple

I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to.

Maria Semple

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

Stone Gossard

My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do something, too. So I've just started using her same materials - a lot of crayons, a lot of sparkle, charcoal, pencils, markers and glue.

Simon McBurney

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

Steven Pressfield

I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your own perfectlyfutile opinion. It makes no difference to you or the world what you may think of any work of art. That is not the question; the point is how it affects you. The picture is the judge of your capacity, not you of its excellence; the world has long ago passed its judgment upon it, and now it is for the work to estimate you.