European Art Quotes

#1. As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

Harold Ramis

#2. My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Yann Martel

#3. My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. I mock this skull.

Yann Martel

#4. It's a European art form, and you're used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don't look like a lot of the girls around me.

Misty Copeland

#5. There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art-house.

Aidan Gillen

#6. I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

David Hockney

#7. I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Larry Ellison

#8. Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Robert Motherwell

#9. Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

Andrew Bird

#10. According to Harold Fleming, for instance, who was then director of the Southern Regional Council, a small Atlanta hotbed of what he now calls "premature integrationists," a moderate was "a white man without sidearms.

Calvin Trillin

#11. I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

Nicholson Baker

#12. I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

David McCullough

#13. If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of the art of the future, instead of trying to base everything she does on European traditions!

Marcel Duchamp

#14. As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

Arne Glimcher

#15. I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with. Bergman and the other European directors were the first ones to open my eyes to film as art.

Richard Corliss

#16. The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same.

Gloria Steinem

#17. Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

Chris Van Allsburg

#18. I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

Mark Kozelek

#19. The art of Europe is drowned in the centuries in the war-scarred face of a motherland..

John Geddes

#20. Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#21. The target for a retracement following a fifth wave often is doubly indicated by the end of the preceding fourth wave and the 382 retracement point.

Robert Prechter

#22. In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. Perfection is pure-fiction.

Janelle Jalbert

#24. I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.

Joel Kinnaman

#25. The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

George Bernard Shaw

#26. We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of Women's Art. However, I believe Latinos are best served by displaying their art next to the art of other groups, particularly North American, European, and even Asian artists.

Mari Carmen Ramirez

#27. The lesson of the Funk Dog: You can forget what it used to feel like to feel good about life; feeling rotten - or just a low-grad funk - seems normal and therefore acceptable. I just don't believe that God intended for any of his creatures to be petted with sticks.

Jill Conner Browne

#28. Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European ...

Kingsley Amis

#29. We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Jean Rostand

#30. There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.

Wes Craven

#31. The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.

Bob Marley

#32. Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment, with an excellent toilet, and a well-furnished dogma.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#33. Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.

Peter Drucker