Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Grey

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

Alex Grey

My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the multi-dimensional imaginal realms that pull us toward consciousness evolution.

Alex Grey

Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.

Blake Shelton

The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is what all the other artists are doing. You need to be doing it also.' I didn't really have a clue what is was.

Blake Shelton

I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.

Emmy Rossum

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

John O'Donohue

The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.

Gloria Steinem

The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same.

J. G. Ballard

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.

For me, art is like a big support group, where you go and meet people who think the same way, and you go, 'Okay, I'm not nuts.'

The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.

Bar Paly

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.

Bryan Batt

No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

Bill Paxton

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

Bill Viola

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

Billy Porter

I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.

Banks

I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

Bryce Dallas Howard

There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.

Clay Walker

I heard some famous people had an anniversary, five long years together, it was Hollywood history. Now my grandma and grandpa never made no printed page, but they took the love of 57 years right to the grave.

Coleman Young

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Clement Mok

It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.

Claude Monet

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

Claude Monet

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

Claude Monet

The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us...

Claude Monet

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

Claude Monet

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Claude Monet

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

Claude Monet

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.