Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Erickson

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

Arthur Conan Doyle

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Bill Griffith

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

Bill Griffith

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Benny Goodman

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

Bob Seger

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

Charlie Rose

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

Charlie Trotter

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

Charley Pride

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

Aisha Tyler

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

Ai Weiwei

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

Ai Weiwei

I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

Ai Weiwei

I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

Ai Weiwei

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

Ai Weiwei

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

Ai Weiwei

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

Ai Weiwei

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society,

Ai Weiwei

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.

Ai Weiwei

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Ai Weiwei

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

Ai Weiwei

We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.

Ai Weiwei

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Ai Weiwei

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

Ai Weiwei

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

Bliss Carman

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Billy Gibbons

Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form - the blues.

Billy Joel

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Bill Joy

The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary states that the innovation will occur elsewhere. No matter how many people you hire. So the only way to get close to the state of the art is to give the people who are going to be doing the innovative things the means to do it. That's why we had built-in source code with Unix. Open source is tapping the energy that's out there.

Edward Gorey

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

Edward Gorey

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.

Carl Maria von Weber

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

William Wordsworth

Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring!Even yet thou art to meNo bird, but an invisible thing,A voice, a mystery. . . .