Famous Quotes & Sayings

This year we welcomed artists from Hollywood to Hong Kong and everywhere in between.

This year, we decided to look back and to honor and showcase some of the artists who came up during that time and team them with the rising stars that people always love to see at the festival.

Andre Dawson

This year, there's a window for a few players. But you read articles where they say that this might be the year where no one will get in. It's just hard to say.

This year the Q awards highlighted two things; that 2005 has been a vintage year for music in the UK and that the power of the music and artists that Q has always championed remains undimmed.

This town is so attractive for art types. It's the easygoing lifestyle with a cultural cast to it.

Charles Baudelaire

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

C. S. Lewis

To say the very thing you mean,the whole of it,nothing more or less or other than what you really mean,that is the whole art and joy of words.

Amy Pascal

To render it well, it's not a tiny art film. If you're going to make this movie correctly, the beautiful version, you have to see Japan, you have to see all the beauty that Kyoto has to offer, you have to really experience that world. And that costs money.

Orson Scott Card

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Paul Simon

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

Paul Simon

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

Paul Simon

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Paul Simon

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

Robert Morgan

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Robert Morgan

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Robert Henri

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

Orson Scott Card

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

Ram Dass

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

We were really trying to help teacherstrying to bring arts to the classroom to find others ways of reaching the kids.

William Shakespeare

Thou art not for the fashion of these times,Where none will sweat but for promotion.

Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Gerard Hopkins

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. / Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must / Disappointment all I endeavour end?

Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.

Henri Matisse

Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An

We don't need to do just a lemonade stand, we can do art shows and other performances.

We asked Arthur Hills and Steve Forrest to design a course that would complement and not disturb the existing natural environment. They did a terrific job and the course has a very mature feel already.

We consider it a public garden, a piece of Uptown. People stop and look and thank us. During the Uptown Art Fair, someone liked our garden so much that he left us a present.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

We put our thumbprint on everything that goes out of here. We still write and art direct on Mercedes, but we also supervise teams who write and art direct on Mercedes.

When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.

James Gray

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

Sarah Rees Brennan

When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.

Steve Erickson

When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.