Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mamet

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

Darren Fletcher

I want people to take me seriously as an artist and to hear that I have something to truly say and to offer.

Daryl Hall

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

Daryl Hall

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

Darren Aronofsky

I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.

Darren Aronofsky

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

Danny Boyle

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Danger Mouse

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

Daniel Alarcon

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art,

Daniel Barenboim

I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another instrument, another group, and then you have to go back into the collective [sound]. The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on.

Daniel Barenboim

I have heard Ori Kam on several occasions over the last few years and have always been deeply impressed with his playing. He possesses a rare combination of musical talent, technical facility, intelligence, and charisma, and he is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary young artists I have heard in recent years.

Daniel Barenboim

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

Dani Shapiro

I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my sculptor friends: they have hunks of matter. Marble. Wood. It's physical, which I find very appealing. What we have is nothing, is just glaringly blank.

Dani Shapiro

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

D. W. Griffith

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold ones audience.

Daisaku Ikeda

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

Daisaku Ikeda

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

Daisaku Ikeda

A Great Work of Art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

Connie Nielsen

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

Connie Nielsen

I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.

Condola Rashad

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

Condola Rashad

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

Faces hold a special power for us, perhaps more so than art or objects. The beauty bias has a real influence upon us, something we should be mindful of when dealing with others.

John Milton

But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, / Now thou art gone, and never must return!

Kim Hunter

Both Roddy and I were smokers. The producer, Arthur Jacobs, had long-stemmed cigarette holders made for everyone so we could smoke with the make-up on.

Andy Serkis

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.

Andy Serkis

Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.

Amy Heckerling

I went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them.

Amy Heckerling

I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.

Amy Tan

Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might.

Alexandra Stoddard

I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't want to live a grubby life.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I never wanted to study art. And I don't think you need to study art if you are an artist. It's even dangerous to go to school. You need to do whatever you want, as you want.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.