Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.

I am convinced that this new organization will serve the best interests of our Montreal studio. The studio now has all the necessary tools to foster the teams' artistic vision, and reach its new ambition: to become the world's premier development studio not only by size but also - and most importantly - by the quality of the games developed.

Jake Edwards

He's a very love-drunk person. He tries to be artistic poetically.

Tatiana Maslany

I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.

I was interested in the nuts and bolts of its chemistry, the thermodynamics. I learned to blow glass in an artistic vacuum.

Daniel J. Boorstin

There is no known device for artistic contraception.

Donald Sutherland

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Andrej Pejic

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

Ansel Elgort

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

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

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.

Julia Roberts

That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good.

like any cultural institution, stands for artistic freedom.

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.

She's my best friend. She's the best girl. She's my life. She's beautiful and everybody else is crazy about her, too, ... My sister and I are totally different. She could never run the business like I do. She's the artistic side. She can do your hair unbelievable, but she wants nothing to do with the (accounting).

Maurice Jarre

Lean was a director always compromised with his work, but not only in directing, but also in the other technical and artistic aspects.

Kathryn Lasky

I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.

Edmund Wilson

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations -- like that of artistic imagination.

Alan Rosenberg

We need consultation and eventually we need compensation. Whatever happened to artistic integrity? When did we lose the right to say yes or no?

Andy Lau

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

If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we will find the audience is gone in 20 to 30 years. I find as I keep a broader audience in mind, I choose to sing and say more things I actually want to share and fewer things just for the sake of impressing others.

David Henry Hwang

For a long time, it was hard for me to get my work done in Chicago. Silk Road gave me opportunities to do shows like 'Golden Child' - shows that nobody else seemed interested in. And they bring an artistic integrity to the work that matches anything you'll find at a bigger theatre.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.

Jonathan Demme

All my life I have been in love with film and music, and this feels like the best opportunity I have ever had to work with a fusion of the two artistic mediums,

Accessibility to artistic experiences is key, particularly for our young people, if we hope to build a creative, innovative, internationally competitive society ready to face the world, ... We are pleased to be a major partner of this important international gathering of individuals who all share a great thirst and an enormous passion for the arts and young people.

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.

A personality that has contributed, in far away and difficult years, to spread and popularize in Italy the extraordinary artistic strength of jazz.

Greg Daniels

The basic artistic guideline of the show is to be observational and find the humor in real life, so it's good to be from a real place.

It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste.

Dan Futterman

Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.

John Updike

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

Steve Erickson

The notion of artistic responsibility begs questions with no satisfactory conclusions, the most inevitable and ineffectual being that we should just keep thinking and talking about it, given that the alternative - a governmental body monitoring the movies we make and see - is unacceptable.