Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyril Connolly

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

Daphne Guinness

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art,

Daniel Libeskind

The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.

Colum McCann

Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them. Each story is shifted side-ways by each day that unfolds. Nothing ends. The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself. At the heart of all this is the possibility, or desire, to create a piece of art that talks to the human instinct for recovery and joy.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

Dwight Yoakam

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

Coventry Patmore

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

Colin Mochrie

I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

Alessia Cara

I guess people don't think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I'm so glad that there's artists like Lorde and Raury and Kehlani because they're showing other people that young people can have an opinion and a voice and do really well with it. I'm glad I can be one of those people.

Agnes Martin

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

This will demonstrate that when they send in their membership payment, it is going to support a variety of art .

This show is a true extravaganza, and work of art on many levels ? the music, dancing, acting, set, costumes! It has been my privilege to work with everyone involved.

John Glover

The power that an artist can have to move people, I just want to equip myself better with those kind of skills. I see myself as a character actor, not as a leading actor, and in something like ""Time of Your Life,"" I'm being asked to strengthen my chops and take some responsibilities. There's some kind of deepening that needs to be done.

Charlie Trotter

There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.

Why should a female hip-hop artist have to spend time in an urban concrete jungle while other female prisoners are assigned to rural, suburban-type prison camps?

Orson Scott Card

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

We put our thumbprint on everything that goes out of here. We still write and art direct on Mercedes, but we also supervise teams who write and art direct on Mercedes.

John Trudell

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.

Kurt Vonnegut

No art is possible without a dance with death.

Laurence Sterne

If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great.

This will be a show that challenges you. This is part of what art is meant to do.

Katherine Anne Porter

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

Katherine Anne Porter

Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind.

Katherine Anne Porter

I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

Katherine Anne Porter

Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.

Kara Walker

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

Karel Capek

Art must not serve might.

Karen Armstrong

We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art, in painting, in music. Music, everyday confronts us with a form of knowing that doesn't depend on words.