Famous Quotes & Sayings

Courtney Barnett

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

Coventry Patmore

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

Courtney Love

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

Courtney Love

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

Colin Mochrie

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

James F. Cooper

The Americans ... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.

George Santayana

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Steve Martin

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

Steve Martin

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.

Stephen Hawking

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

Brian Selznick

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

Brian Moynihan

The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?

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.

Arne Glimcher

I would begin by collecting lithographs and etchings. It's a way of coming in and benefiting from real quality art. Even younger artists make wonderful prints. Prints can become very valuable. That's how I began collecting.

Azzedine Alaia

Beyonce is a beautiful, elegant woman who is also a wonderful dancer. And her voice is sublime. Just like her husband, Jay-Z, Beyonce has real talent. They are both the kind of truly great artist who will be remembered by history. Their child will be lucky to have such talented parents.

Allison Tolman

I read the 'Fargo' hashtag and what people tweeted at me and every article and every comment on every article. I really just ate it up. But I wasn't prepared for hearing what everybody thought of me.

ASAP Ferg

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

Agnes Martin

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

Joseph Pulitzer

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Antony Gormley

Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.

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

Jay Kay

This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, ... I am extremely pleased to be working with Electronic Arts on this exciting opportunity giving music and gaming fans the chance to live the Need for Speed TM experience.

David Kim

The past few years have seen an even greater collaboration between video games and the music industry, a trend that I think will only grow in the future. There aren't very many outlets for exposure available today ... where an artist can easily reach more than a million potential fans instantly.

The park is very honored and proud to display the art designs from our very special friends,

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.

William Shatner

This show is about the kind of songs you like and can sing, but you can't remember the artist because maybe they never caught on again. We give those artists some renown.

This should put some steel in their spine. Canadians overwhelmingly understand that musicians and other artists are harmed by illegal file-swapping and deserve better protection under the law.

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

James Schuyler

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

To be able to have the parents come in and see, while the children are learning the ballet, their parents are either in the waiting room or watching the kids, they have the opportunity to go in the art gallery or just look around, see the theatre and the same with the Head Start.

Bob Richards

The person who's writing and performing those songs wants to get to know the fans even more. Find out how close that song is to their real life, what it means to them. The earlier in the process that we can start connecting those artists with fans, the better.

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.

Amity Gaige

When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.