Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Brett

When I was little I used to wish I could talk to the illustrators because I wanted to discuss something about the books. With so many of the other art forms that children experience, such as movies and television, they don't get to control the pace.

Jason Aldean

As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In '05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.

Jane Smiley

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Jane Smiley

When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.

Randeep Hooda

There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.

Arthur Balfour

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

Anton Chekhov

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

bell hooks

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

bell hooks

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

Balthus

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

Balthus

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Balthus

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

Banksy

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

Banksy

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

Banksy

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

Banksy

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

Banksy

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.

Banksy

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Austin Butler

When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.

Arundhati Roy

Use your art to fight.

Diana Vreeland

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

Diane Ackerman

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts ...

Diane Ackerman

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

Daniel Gilbert

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

Daniel Goleman

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

Dana Gioia

The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.

Claire Forlani

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

Ricky Gervais

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

Arthur Koestler

The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized the parts, the more elaborate co-ordination is needed to create a well-balanced whole. The ultimate criterion of the value of a functional whole is the degree of its internal harmony or integratedness, whether the functional whole is a biological species or a civilization or an individual. A whole is defined by the pattern of relations between its parts, not by the sum of its parts; and a civilization is not defined by the sum of its science, technology, art and social organization, but by the total pattern which they form, and the degree of harmonious integration in that pattern.

Talib Kweli

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

Tom Bissell

Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.

Tom Bissell

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

Tom Lenk

My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.