Quotes of: Fine-art Keyword

Art is long and life is short.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

But real life is not art.

The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

I don't want to be here when my latest work of accidental art is discovered.

Hush, Hush

Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.

Blue Nights

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm's principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.

Martin Filler

I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have.

Brendan Gleeson

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Stendhal

I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

Geoff Downes

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Mason Cooley

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

Noel Gallagher

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

Serj Tankian

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

Zayn Malik

I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.

Anika Noni Rose

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Frank Gehry

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

Frank Gehry

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

Moby

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Maya Lin

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Philip Warren Anderson