Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Art depends on luck and talent. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Related Quotes:

" I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. "

" When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me. "

" Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. "

" I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. "

" Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation. "

Russell Simmons

" Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music. "

" To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. "

" Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed. "

" On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "

" I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music. "

Amandla Stenberg

" The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" Land really is the best art. "

" The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. "

" The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. "

John Wesley Powell

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

Laurence J. Peter

" You don't take a photograph, you make it. "

" To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. "

Morihei Ueshiba

" I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. "

Madonna Ciccone

" Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. "

Gustave Flaubert

" But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. "

" I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. "

" Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. "

" Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. "

William Bernbach

" It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result. "

" To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' "

Langston Hughes

" The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life. "

" I love putting the music together. It's like art. "

" Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. "

" Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way. "

Francis Ford Coppola