Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Waitley

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

We're talking about a major art gallery that will be a meeting place. We want to not only represent quality artists, but to have classes, to involve the local schools, to touch the community much the same way we've created the arts and business alliance.

Shane Warne

Where it came from I don't know. But if people are trying to unsettle me personally and the team all together through the newspapers, it won't work. We'll be looking into this article in particular and taking it from there.

LL Cool J

What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's a blessing. I'm okay with it.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Younger women are willing to go out with high status males. If you look at the kind of women Salman Rushdie attracts, they tend to be intelligent, arty types. For her, it's a kudos thing. The man just wants a good-looking girl because he imagines that when his friends see him, they'll all think, 'Gosh I wish I was him.'

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

Hayley Kiyoko

I've always wanted my lyrics to say something meaningful and, you know, you always want to tell a message with your art. So yes, as I continue to write music, I will write about things that are real and things that I feel aren't written about a lot.

Hayden Schlossberg

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

We're not going to limit ourselves to only traditional and new digital models for selling music. We're going to look at every artist as a unique and special brand and look at what business relationships we can get into.

Louis C. K.

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

Kurt Vonnegut

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Kurt Vonnegut

I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’

Bill O'Reilly

I just think Barack [Obama], he doesn't dig being asked at all. He's got a bit of an imperious nature about him. I guess nobody has told him that nobody reads newspapers anymore. That is a dying art form.

Benjamin E. Mays

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.

Bertrand Russell

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

Chad Kroeger

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

Cass McCombs

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Carol P. Christ

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

Carlos Fuentes

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

Carlos Castaneda

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

Carl Andre

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ...when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

Carl Andre

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

When you see a show like this, I think it will make you care a lot more about art. It might make someone go start painting, inspire them to learn about an artist or start buying art.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

Agnes Martin

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly

Agnes Martin

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Agnes Martin

I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

Agnes Varda

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

Agnes Repplier

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Agnes Repplier

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

Agnes Repplier

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.