Famous Arts Quotes

#1. Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Aberjhani

#2. I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

Lyle Lovett

#3. arts, I said, just like that in painting, in literature, I said, even philosophers are ignorant of philosophy. Most artists are ignorant of their art. They have a dilettante's notion of art, remain stuck all their lives in dilettantism, even the most famous artists in the world. We

Thomas Bernhard

#4. When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

Lynda Barry

#5. People are just people, no matter what their career or social standing may be. -Guy

S.L. Wallace

#6. Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

Elisabeth Elliot

#7. Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Francis I

#8. Their thought processes can largely be represented by "="."" You see it = you eat it.

Terry Pratchett

#9. It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

Bret Easton Ellis

#10. I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

Alan Alda

#11. I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.

Loren Eiseley

#12. The Victim was a chronic fuck-up. People Like her always seemed to hang out with The Poisonous Cunt. In turn, she kept their self-esteem low and made sure that they stayed in psychic immiseration. She was a curator of dead souls.

Irvine Welsh

#13. This is your story and you get to decide how it's written.

Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

#14. But you already know me pretty well by now! Helena said, and then directed her to her own profile page.

Dave Eggers

#15. One honorable young man can make all the difference ...

Robert L. Beck

#16. When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.

Sia Furler

#17. Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

Jet Li

#18. And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn.

Aldous Huxley

#19. In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

Robin Marantz Henig

#20. The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Oscar Wilde