Famous Quotes & Sayings

This way it gives the community a back story so that people will get excited and purchase the art work, buy the book, go see the performance.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.

Seamus Heaney

This temperamental disposition towards an art that was earnest and devoted to things as they are was corroborated by the experience of having been born and brought up in Northern Ireland and of having lived with that place even though I have lived out of it for the past quarter of a century.

When is the new art building going to open?

We are trying to promote a serious art gallery, rather than one that displays local crafts. We thought someone of his caliber would be perfect to launch this new image.

Julia Glass

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Jonathan Swift

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Madonna Ciccone

I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.

Michael Tilson Thomas

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.

Michel Faber

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

Richard Phillips

Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world and articulates the exchanges of power both real and imagined.

William Shakespeare

Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.

Michael Flatley

Feet of Flames was a great show, hugely successful. I know a lot of people were upset with me when I didn't continue it. But it's hard to be working on a new work of art when you're still dancing in another one.

Mark Indelicato

Fashion week is very inspiring, and you can't look at things one dimensionally. And I think that everyone who works in this industry has a very three-dimensional view of what fashion is and what art is.

There's sort of an art to the whole fence, toilet, concession thing that's sometimes looked at as no big thing. But it's taken years for us to get it down to the way we need it.

There's a focus in art education. Art is really part of the culture of Japan.

There's a definite inspiration from the art of Mondrian, Kandinsky and Rothko. This translates nicely into upbeat colors and shapes.

Jonathan Safran Foer

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.

There's no other way to describe this than as a tremendous gift. Putting aside the art of the deal, Donald Trump really understands the art of the gift as well.

There's more art than science to this. Put yourself in their shoes. You don't have a crystal ball. You don't know what to expect.

Malik Bendjelloul

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

There's nothing like it that can combine the things that are there, ... The art of drawing and painting ... music, dance, storytelling. All of these things in one package.

Mike Mills

There's nothing like a movie. It's the one art form that can really make me cry, and the thing is, we're all filmmakers. We're all creating movies in our heads all the time on our internal projection screens. To have the experience of playing out that movie, and making it real, it was very moving... in fact, I was crying my eyes out last night because I was thinking of how special the whole thing was,

The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth; / Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation: / It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.

I so enjoyed working with Jessica on our Rushmore project. Sharing the art is important to both of us.

Isn't art great when you walk by and you say, 'hmmm, I kind of like that.' Isn't that great? ... I don't think art is for the few little elitists at some gallery.

John Edgar Wideman

What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

Philipp Meyer

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

Scott Adsit

What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They're a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot.

Michael Jacobs

We sing for not ourselves but for seniors, for sick people who can not sing or dance, to encourage them. There have been a lot of changes in the Indian country but the values are the same about love, respect, honor and art of living.

Steven Spielberg

Through the visual arts, the performing arts, the art of music, the art of dance, the art of celebration of life, all of us are dedicated to making this Olympic opening and closing ceremonies the most emotional everyone has ever seen.

Josh Willingham

We've been talking a lot about receiving -- keeping balls in the zone and working on footwork. There is an art to getting strikes. I'm learning a lot and making a lot of adjustments. It's helping me a lot.