Famous Quotes & Sayings

Banksy

Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.

Banksy

Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that

Banksy

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

Banksy

Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.

Banksy

The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires

Banksy

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

Banksy

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

Banksy

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

Banksy

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

Banksy

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

Larry Ellison

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Larry Ellison

I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

Larry Page

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

Pablo Picasso

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

P. J. O'Rourke

When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

Olivier Theyskens

Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.

When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

Warren G

If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.

Ted Sarandos

To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.

Toni Servillo

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

Holly Black

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.

Jim Lee

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.

John Wright

We're not saying we're the pros from Dover, ... This is just something that's not being done here and it's very important. A modern and sophisticated city needs this kind of theatre in the same way that it needs a symphony orchestra or an art gallery -- to engage and inform its citizens and artists through exposure to the great works of humankind.

We are ready to negotiate on the nuclear issue right now. It's North Korea that's creating the artificial obstacle to progress.

We are part art gallery and part business.

Harbhajan Singh

I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

Yaya Han

Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'

Twyla Tharp

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

Yang Lan

On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.

Tim Gunn

But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.