Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

Carl Jung

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

P. J. O'Rourke

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

Diego Rivera

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

Diana Krall

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Dennis Hopper

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.

Dennis Hopper

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

Dennis Hopper

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

Edward Gibbon

Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation.

Edgar Degas

A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.

Edgar Degas

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

Edgar Degas

the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

Edgar Degas

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Edgar Degas

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

Edgar Degas

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Elizabeth McGovern

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

Edwin Louis Cole

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

Edmund Waller

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Benjamin Franklin

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

Barbara Tuchman

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

Barbra Streisand

How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?

Axl Rose

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.

Avril Lavigne

It's so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it's all about singles, it's really quick, it's online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but - I don't know what the key is.

Avril Lavigne

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

Avril Lavigne

Actually, I know for a fact there are some young female artists who don't even sing on their own records and who don't sing live. And that is pathetic.

Arthur Fogel

I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.

Arthur Erickson

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Arthur Erickson

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Arthur Erickson

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Arthur Erickson

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Arthur Erickson

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Arthur Erickson

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.