Famous Quotes & Sayings

Len Cariou

I was in Canada running the Manitoba Theatre Centre as artistic director and I had written to Mr. Prince and asked him if he would give me his stage manager copy of the musical 'Company,' which I was going to do in my season there, ... He said, 'Yes,' and then said, 'By the way, Stephen's written you a musical and I'm going to send you the book.'

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.

Ian Somerhalder

I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

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 am pleasantly surprised at the wealth of artistic talent that has had a connection to South Jersey, either historic or present day. But I am even more surprised that we continue to learn of more such artists and entertainers every year. Any region of any state would be proud to be associated with artists of such stature.

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.

Overall I am pleased. All things considered I think it went very well and from an artistic standpoint I'm very proud of what we've been able to do. The goal next year is to provide the same quality and save a little money.

Big Sean

Working with Kanye is one of the greatest things ever. It's also one of the most nerve-wracking things ever. He's, like, the most critical, particular, artistic person ever.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.

Nikki Reed

Everyone in my family has some kind of artistic tendency. My great grandmother was a jewelry designer, and her daughter was a ceramic tile muralist.

Charles Saatchi

Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

Karen Kain

We are delighted Chris wants to return after exploring other artistic interests and look forward to his artistry and strong stage presence,

Vincent Van Gogh

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people

Vonda Shepard

I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.

Neil MacGregor

Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.

Clint Hurdle

We didn't play our best. We wobbled out of the bullpen, we got six runs on six hits and 10 walks, which probably wasn't very artistic from an offensive standpoint, but we played better than the other team tonight.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.

Larry Page

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

Oscar Wilde

Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

P. J. O'Rourke

When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

Olivier Theyskens

Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.

Walter Kirn

The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

Whether it has been transformed from commercial fad to artistic recognition is very much in the air.

Glen Hansard

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

David Byrne

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

Wood Harris

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.