Art Awards Quotes

#1. The quest for the next key art awards begins with tomorrow's hangover

Nick Offerman

#2. Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

Stephen Covey

#3. Capture the essence of your aspirations by understand the true meaning of your intuitive thoughts.

Steven Redhead

#4. Those dudes are hot," announced Tamara. Both Lor and Patrick shut up and turned to stare at her. Damian looked up and grinned wolfishly. My daughter's face went bright red. She drew the sheet over her head, muttering, "You can stake me now.

Michele Bardsley

#5. I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer.

Jack White

#6. Like a detective keenly searching for clues, our daughters are solving the mystery of womanhood itself.

Melia Keeton-Digby

#7. Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.

Steven Van Zandt

#8. If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

David Ogilvy

#9. I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.

Annette Bening

#10. What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.

Jennifer Egan

#11. We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.

C.S. Lewis

#13. The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

David Letterman

#14. We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#15. Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

Seth Godin

#16. Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

Javier Bardem

#17. To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz musician) ... and twenty-nine honorary degrees, including Columbia, Brown, Princeton and Yale; the National Medal of Arts; and numerous awards from other countries.

Randy Sandke

#18. The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.

Julie Dillon

#19. I've always considered them ideas, forever recorded." Malone motioned to one of the paperbacks. "Malory wrote King Arthur in the late part of the 15th century. So you're reading his thoughts from five hundred years ago. We'll never know Malory, but we know his imagination.

Steve Berry

#20. I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

Rachel Corrie

#21. One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

Harriet Doerr

#22. If you write science fiction you can spell things the way you like, sometimes.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#23. When the game begins, let your rook remain in its position as the knight and the bishop advance to occupy the empty squares created by the moved pawns.

William Pearson