Quotes of: Fine-art Keyword

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

Jerry Saltz

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

John Updike

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Jeanette Winterson

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

Johnny Weir

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

Johnny Weir

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

Kevin Brownlow

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Khalil Gibran

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.

Kaskade

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

Kristin Scott Thomas

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Leonard Baskin

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Lukas Foss

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Lady Bird Johnson

What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's a blessing. I'm okay with it.

LL Cool J

I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.

Lupita Nyong'o

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Liz Phair

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Laura Riding

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Lou Reed

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Lynn Swann

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

Lili Taylor