Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal ...

Ayn Rand

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

Atticus Shaffer

I love voice over work. To me, voice over and animation is such an art, because you focus solely on your voice. You do not focus on how to speak, combined with facial expressions, movement, etc. You as the actor need to convey all those things with only your voice.

Brenda Ueland

... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

Brad Dourif

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

Jane Hirshfield

Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's palette. For a long time, I've wanted to invite in more strangeness, more freedom of imagination. Yet music, seeing, and meaning are also cohering disciplines. They can be stretched, and that is part of poetry's helium pleasure. But not to the point of breaking.

Jane Hirshfield

Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

Kim Gordon

Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression.

Kim Gordon

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

Laura Mvula

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

Elizabeth Price

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.

I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.

Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.

Eric Whitacre

The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.

Ben Elton

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

Carl von Clausewitz

Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.

Carl von Clausewitz

Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

Carl Sandburg

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

Carl Sandburg

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Burt Reynolds

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

Bryant H. McGill

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

Carl von Clausewitz

The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed.

Al Yankovic

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

Alain de Botton

Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.

Alain de Botton

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

Alain de Botton

If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

Alain de Botton

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer 's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

Alain de Botton

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

Alain de Botton

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

Charles Churchill

Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.

Alanis Morissette

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.