All Quotes

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
‐‐ Ludwig van Beethoven

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
‐‐ Adrienne Rich

Art will never be able to exist without nature.
‐‐ Pierre Bonnard

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.
‐‐ Robert Pinsky

Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.
‐‐ Alison Jackson

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
‐‐ Yannick Noah

Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
‐‐ Rafael Yglesias

Arthur is my middle name; George is my dad's middle name.
‐‐ Rob Kardashian

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.
‐‐ Jimmy Reid

Arthur Winslow is one of the great parts.
‐‐ Roger Rees

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.
‐‐ James Merrill

Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution grants Congress clear jurisdiction with regard to U.S. citizenship and immigration matters.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website.
‐‐ Mike McCue

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
‐‐ Paul Simon

Artie is going to do what ever Artie wants to do.
‐‐ Artie Lange

Artie Shaw was way ahead of most clarinetists and most jazz players.
‐‐ Buddy DeFranco

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
‐‐ Paul Simon

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.
‐‐ Ken Goldberg

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
‐‐ Godfried Danneels

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.
‐‐ Ray Kurzweil

Artificial sweeteners may trigger cravings for other sweet foods. When your body is not fed nutrients, it asks again and again for more food, triggering heavy-duty cravings for fattening, sugary foods. Artificial sweeteners also mess with your metabolism.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.
‐‐ Laurieann Gibson

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.
‐‐ Emile Hirsch

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

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.
‐‐ David Coverdale

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
‐‐ Harold Prince

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
‐‐ Madeleine L'Engle

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.
‐‐ Paul Rand

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
‐‐ Alberto Giacometti

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.
‐‐ Sarah Kay

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.
‐‐ Steve Wynn

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
‐‐ Hans Haacke

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.
‐‐ Emily Saliers

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
‐‐ Ben Okri

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
‐‐ Guillaume Apollinaire

Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break down, and there's going to be a multitude of sound coming out.
‐‐ Steve Aoki

Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.
‐‐ Natalia Kills

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

Artists are, I think in general, compassionate people, and part of what makes us artists is that we're open-minded people, and I think we're almost, by definition, progressive in a lot of ways.
‐‐ John Legend

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
‐‐ Al Hirschfeld