Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Wynter Gordon

'Stimela' is the very first video I directed. I wanted it to be an emotional visual art piece, displaying humans as free, powerful animals. We are all running from something or searching for something; our instincts have been ignored.

Win Butler

The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.

William Dunbar

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

William Adams

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

William Drummond

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

Ving Rhames

I don't know if I hadn't grown up poor, and in the neighborhood I did, if I would have had that much to bring to my art form. I call upon my past with characters.

Arne Glimcher

The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art. When the Japanese economy went down the tubes, there was no one left to pay the prices that have been recorded for all of those works.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

August Wilson

I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.

Adam Clayton

The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.

Bonnie Raitt

I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

bell hooks

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.

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.

Tim Crouch

There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art.

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.