arts

"A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things."

"Personality is everything in art and poetry."

"To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy."

"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."

"I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something."

"Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art."

"Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't."

"I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration."

"Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it."

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

"Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus."

"I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts."

"Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures."

"That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind."

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

"An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it."

"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."

"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake."

"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."