Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Cink

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

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.

We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy films.

We wanted to show how this city became such an artistic capital.

Donald Sutherland

Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

Ansel Elgort

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

Daniel J. Boorstin

There is no known device for artistic contraception.

Zoe Cassavetes

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

Teju Cole

On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I see myself as an observer of the world who has a strong drive to testify, which I can do because I have the privilege of living in New York with enough food to eat and shelter.

William Macy

My ass is for sale... starting right now: no more art. Recently, I realized I've got all these artistic frequent-flier miles and so, I'm cashing them in. I want to do big, fat movies.

Penn Jillette

For us to make any sort of statement that our artistic expression is being trounced would be self-serving, unpleasant and not true.

Placido Domingo

Becoming artistic director at L.A. Opera feels less like a major change in my life there than a kind of upgrading,

Neill Blomkamp

I think filmmakers in general are, as the tools become more and more advanced, you're able to tell stories in a way that I think is more realistic. The technology just wasn't there up until pretty recently, and it takes a bit of time for the normal artistic way of approaching something to become a mainstream thing.

The artistic talent in this country is phenomenal and this is an exciting time to be a designer. We and our partners look forward to seeing the best work that the Bahamian art community, both here and abroad, will have to offer.

I was blown away when I learned Keith had an artistic talent.

Shepard Fairey

Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.

William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all the performing arts, more profound and more widespread than any other writer who has ever lived.

We expect 17 million-plus visitors annually through Victory Plaza. The Victory Media Network will offer intriguing and engaging video entertainment. Our programming will be rich with cultural and artistic content -- but continually changing in order to keep it different and fresh. To do that, we'll be showcasing film and digital art from local and national artists, as well as Dallas museums and galleries.

We are thrilled that Sally Mann and Catherine Opie responded with such enthusiasm to curator Thomas Padon's invitation to create new work especially for the exhibition. Looking at all of the photographs in the exhibition, I am still struck by the diversity of artistic expressions to the form, atmosphere and symbolism of the garden.

Andy Lau

I think Fruit Chan is an interesting director because he could offer a purely commercial attraction with artistic subjects and personalities.

We haven't set a date, we've got preparations to do in terms of choreography, ... It will be artistic and it will involve body paint.

Joel Kinnaman

I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'

I believe in this community and its artistic roots, and (I) want to be part of an organization that makes a difference in the lives of residents and artists.

I don't make plans. All my life, one artistic impulse has simply led me to another.

Susanne Bier

I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film.

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics.

I think we have a really strong artistic showing here in the valley. And I think everybody is wanting to reconnect with the open treasures (the land) we have left.

Richard Ernst

I had the great luck to grow up, together with two sisters, in a town that combined in a unique way artistic and industrious activities.

This is original art, and some of the people are great and some are awful, but (the Fringe) is a place you can be awful. . . . And the people choose who they want to see. . . . (The Fringe) gives the local community -- the artistic underground -- a chance to really do their stuff. And for people like me, it's great, because I'm trying to work a show out that I can tour with.

Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.

Mario Batali

Nothing that would be as artistic as any of the four restaurants I have in the city. If I was to do anything in Las Vegas, for instance, it would have to be... idiot-proof. And I still haven't decided if I'm capable of that.

David Strathairn

It's really a presentation of life, as it was at that moment, in a really artistic way. Everything was double-sourced. George was determined to do this as a journalist.

Kathe Kollwitz

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.