Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Bailey

What he did in the artistic field is what a lot of Japan's top name manufacturers did in their field.

Susan Sontag

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

With the high percentage of Spanish speakers, we wanted these kids to have an artistic outlet, too.

Nicolas Cage

With my goal to make a family drama and also my artistic aspirations of doing things which are a bit edgy, I've gotten a really happy marriage in 'The Weather Man', ... Gore went outside the box and did something personal and artistic, but at the same time it hits all the right notes in terms of children that may be going through a divorce, or a husband and wife dealing with it in a way that's not Pollyanna or saccharine or B.S. I haven't made that many movies like it. I know I've never made a movie as individual as 'The Weather Man' in dealing with family issues.

Charles Rosen

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

Robert Lantos

Where the Truth Lies' is a sophisticated and intelligently provocative film, ... The NC-17 rating will unfairly limit people's access to it because of the number of theaters in America which will not play an NC-17 rated film. This film stars some of the most talented actors in the movies today, is based on a popular mainstream novel and is written and directed by a filmmaker known for his artistic integrity and achievement. The film has not encountered this kind of restrictive rating anywhere else in the free world. Only in America will many be deprived of access to it.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

Guy Laliberte

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

In 2007, when my husband Damian Woetzel took on the artistic direction at the Vail Valley International Dance Festival, we both felt it was important to offer the entire Vail community access to dance.

There is no other art in which you are your own artistic tool. It is so full. You use your body, you use your mind and you grow your self both in the moment and through time ? In modern dance, you get to use your entire range -- all your training plus who you are as a person.

Cesare Pavese

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

Carlton Cuse

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

Frank Turner

With those overalls and that aw shucks demeanor, people are always asking me if he is for real. I tell them he's 90 percent real. He can do almost anything with his hands. He's a master carpenter. He can weld, and he's artistic with everything.

P. J. O'Rourke

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

Cass McCombs

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.

Arthur Guiterman

Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Laura Marling

I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

Kenneth Branagh

I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.'

Kenneth Branagh

A creative and artistic home is what I've been looking for in the theatre.

Edward Carey

Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.

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.

Eric Kandel

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.

Bill Bixby

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Bill Griffith

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

Isaiah Berlin

There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision... and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.

Don Bluth

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

David Allan Coe

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

David Alan Grier

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

Robert Crumb

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

Arne Jacobsen

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Antonin Artaud

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

Denise Levertov

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.