Art Quotes - page 81

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science. (Natalie Jeremijenko)
Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me. View quote
Nic Pizzolatto
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things. View quote
Nicholas Meyer
My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm. View quote
Nick Moran
I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development. View quote
Nico Tortorella
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. View quote
Noah Taylor
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not. View quote
Octavia Spencer
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that. View quote
Olafur Eliasson
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator. View quote
Olivia Newton-John
My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them. View quote
Olivia Williams
It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week. (Owen Hart)
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. View quote
Peter Hammill
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries. View quote
Peter M. Brant
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books. View quote
Peter M. Brant
If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer. View quote
Peter Max
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense. View quote
Peter Maxwell Davies
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. View quote
Peter Maxwell Davies
Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities. View quote
Peter Sotos
Im not trying to do conceptual art. View quote
Peter Sotos
I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still. View quote
Phil Spector
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas. (Philip Kaufman)
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? View quote
Polly Toynbee
Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. View quote
Patrick Duffy
I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself. View quote
Paul Daniels
I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done. View quote
Paul Muni