Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Haden

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

Charlie Chaplin

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

Charlie Chaplin

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Cheryl Strayed

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

Cheryl Strayed

It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.

Cheryl Strayed

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

Cher Lloyd

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

Charles Baudelaire

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

Charles Baudelaire

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

Charles Baudelaire

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Charles Baudelaire

As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.

Charles Baudelaire

In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

Charles Baudelaire

Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalite ; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always a product of art.

Chaka Khan

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

Chaim Potok

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Charles Saatchi

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

Charles Saatchi

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Charles Saatchi

Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.

Charles Saatchi

I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't feel especially conflicted enjoying a Mantegna one day, a Carl Andre the next day and a brash student work the next.

Charles Simic

Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

Charles Ives

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

Charles Ives

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Charles Horton Cooley

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Bill Anderson

Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

Beth Moore

Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form.

Bill Viola

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

Bill Watterson

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.

Bill Watterson

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

Madeleine Albright

jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible.

Tyler Cowen

In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

Mario Testino

Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

Neil Burger

I really love New York, and I've lived here for a long time. I know not just the different neighborhoods but the different kind of class cultures in New York from the up-and-coming, down-and-out kind of artist to the powerful worlds of finance.

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.