Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Crouch

'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

Tahar Rahim

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

Tahar Rahim

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

Tristram Stuart

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.

Alexander Woollcott

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

Alexander Woollcott

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

Alexander Woollcott

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

Alexander Theroux

Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.

Alexander Theroux

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

Chuck D.

We were all figuring out ways to build an image rather than paint it. Sculptors didn't want to work in bronze or marble or wax. They wanted to find a material that didn't have any art use. We were similarly trying to find ways of working that were not about paint-it-in, paint-it-out, scrape-it-off -- some way of working all over at once.

We were all caught off guard a little bit. One question I never got to ask Art (McMaster) was 'when did you come to this conclusion?' In hindsight, maybe the fact that we hadn't gotten a date yet should have suggested something. But I think we all thought we were working to keep it here.

We definitely reinvented the art and put it back on the map. I'm proud of the resurgence,

Douglas Coupland

To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.

Thought is more important than art. . . . To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

William Shakespeare

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

Hannah Ware

I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.

Hussein Chalayan

I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.

Hussein Chalayan

I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.

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.

Imelda May

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

Iggy Azalea

I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.

Ice T

I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.

Idina Menzel

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.