Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Shetterly

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

Will Shetterly

Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.

I guess some fans like art and get it, others are just into the music, don't really turn up and have an opinion. The fans that have shown interest are all with me all the way.

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

William McDonough

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

William McDonough

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

Virginia Postrel

Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light.

Vivienne Westwood

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

Vincent Bugliosi

I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.

I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.

Zubin Mehta

I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

Yayoi Kusama

In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.

Yayoi Kusama

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

Yayoi Kusama

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

Will Durant

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

Colin Angle

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

Claire Forlani

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

Chris Bangle

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

Chet Faker

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

Eve Ensler

I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.

Ellen Key

The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.

Elaine Stritch

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

David Byrne

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.

David Bailey

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.

David Byrne

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

David Byrne

I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

Jonathan Jackson

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

Joseph Fiennes

Yeah, I guess that's fair, ... And in a weird way my childhood was a great precursor to where I am now. Every year I had to learn how to interact in a new schoolyard, reinventing myself if one character didn't work. In hindsight I can see that it was great actor's training. But it was just the art of survival, really. Trying not to get beaten up in the playground.

We're embarking on a first-in-the-nation project, ... We want to find out why Generation Xers come to arts events; if they do, why. Why they don't, if they don't, and what it takes to attract them in the first place.