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Quotes about the Other Arts"I went to New York to study painting and happened to get a record deal. When MTV happened, we all became movie stars. I couldn't leave the house for 10 or 12 years. ... Painting is harder on me than being on stage. I stand 8 or 10 hours a day. I used to consider it a hobby, but now I don't. It's hard to be taken seriously because I'll always be considered a celebrity painter. Being a rock star has been a pain in the ass all around." — John Mellencamp, "Upfront / What I Know Now," AARP The Magazine, June/July 2017
"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist." — Franz Liszt
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well." — Johann Sebastian Bach
"Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul." — Julie Garwood
"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow." — Kurt Vonnegut
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." — Leo Tolstoy
"I used to walk the hills for hours and talk to the rabbits and write poetry. Of course it was only because I wanted to get away from the family and because I didn't know any better."
"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." — Mark Twain
"Our human need for connection and expression demands that we find a way, hopefully in a beautiful way, to relate our feelings to each other in art and song. ... The effectiveness of making art or viewing art is not in a form of venting one's feelings as much as a person moving on to a different, more wholesome vein. ... We rely on creative people to help us fulfill our abilities to dream and improve our days and lives. ... Authentic voice in music and art, experienced first-hand, has the power to move us. ...when you are with the real deal, however humble or grand the artistic execution, you know it, and it reaches something inside our souls, confirming our basic right to existence." — Janet Sellers, "Art Matters: What does art really do?," Our Community News, Feb. 2, 2013
"He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hand and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist." — St. Francis of Assisi
"Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unsgable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and this makes the senses strong in Italy than anywhere in Europe. That is why, [Luigi] Barzini says, Italians will tolerate hideously incompetent generals, presidents, tyrants, professors, bureaucrats, journalists and captains of industry, but will never tolerate incompetent 'opera singers, conductors, ballerinas, courtesans, actors, film directors, cooks, tailors ...' In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptable. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real." — Elizabeth Gilbert, "Eat Pray Love"
"In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?" — Gabrielle Roth, contributed by Betty Spreen
"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. 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. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something." — Kurt Vonnegut
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." — unknown
"People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance." — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
"If you teach a bear to dance, you must keep dancing until the bear wants to stop." — Steve Gilmore
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." — Albert Einstein, contributed by Rob Solomon
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." — Friedrich Nietzsche, from Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology
"...the average tax payer is not a big voluntary supporter of the arts. The only art that the average taxpayer buys voluntarily either has a picture of Bart Simpson on it or little suction cups on its feet so you can stick it onto a car window." — Dave Barry, Dave Barry Talks Back
"Talent excuses cruelty."
"Early on, [Allen True] begins to get a little frustrated with that printed page thing because it's so ephemeral. People would open the page and read it and see his picture and then flip the page, and that would be the last they'd ever see of it. He wanted something that would endure." — Peter Hassrick on Allen True's transition from illustrator to easel paintings and then murals, quoted by Gary Glascow in "History / True West," University of Denver Magazine Spring 2010
"The funny thing is that the process of coming up with an idea for a column or a 'Candid Camera' sequence is essentially the same thing. I just live my life with eyes and ears perhaps a little bit wider open than some people. Whatever bothers me or seems off kilter or in need of parody—or on a serious subject, in need of examination—in the past I had done a sequence about it. Now I write a column about it." — Peter Funt, quoted by Gary Glasgow in "People / 'Camera' man," University of Denver Magazine Spring 2010
"My favorite trip was to the Museum of Modern Art. For years I had been hooked on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, shamefully to the exclusion of a lot of other music. I have different versions of it, and that day I was listening to Stokowski's on my headphones as I went in.When I got upstairs and turned the corner, I saw Monet's 'Waterlilies' for the first time. I know there are many paintings he did of this subject, but I had no idea how enormous this one was. The crescendo of 'Ode to Joy' caught me as I stood there and realized that I was listening to music a deaf man wrote while looking at a painting a blind man painted." — Brett Butler, Knee Deep in Paradise
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing." — Marc Chagall, answer to Celebrity Cipher
"Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts." — Julian Beever aka "Pavement Picasso" (chalk artist)
"For students in Kit Carson's kindergarten through fifth-grade
classes, the arts are a regular part of each school day — just
like reading or math.
"The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand." — Ashleigh Brilliant, "Pot Shots," The Rocky Mountain News August 22, 2008
"Movies used to be filmed at a much more languorous pace. Today's movies look like they cut up the frames .... and mixed them with a salad shooter." — Batiuk & Ayers, "Crankshaft," The Denver Post, August 3, 2008
"...a new kind of interactive fiction. These narratives unfold in fragments, in all sorts of media, from Web sites to phone calls to live events, and the audience pieces together the story from shards of information. The task is too complicated for any one person, but the Web enables a collective intelligence to emerge to assemble the pieces, solve the mysteries, and in the process, tell and retell the story online. The narrative is shaped—and ultimatelyowned—by the audience in ways that other forms of story tellingcannont match. No longer passive consumers, the players live out the story. Eight years ago, this kind of entertainment didn't exist; now dozens of such games are launched every year, many of them attracting millions of followers on every continent." — Frank Rose, "This Buzz for You," Wired magazine, Jan 2008
"Life may not be the party we hoped for,but while we`re here we should dance." — unknown
"I just wanted to take a moment and thank the Writers Guild for their strike. It has forced television networks to play older shows and reruns that are of a better quality than any of the current shows have. Thanks for making TV good again — I hope you all continue striking!" — Rich Passarelli, Aurora, Perspective, The Denver Post, December 30, 2007
"The Arts teach us nothing except the significance of life." — Henry Miller, quoted in a Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP ad
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh." — Friedrich Nietzsche, quoted by David Baird, A Thousand Paths to Happiness
"It was a career-defining moment. It defined that fact that I
still have something that passes for a career." — Jim Ratts of Runaway Express
"Great art picks up where nature ends." — Marc Chagall, answer to Celebrity Cipher, Colorado Springs Gazette, Nov. 1, 2007
"All art is quite useless." — Oscar Wilde
"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." — Warren Beatty (answer to 6/29/07 Celebrity Cipher)
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"Even as a listener and fan, I have to pace myself. We get 'burn out' on this side of the fence, too." — Kim Davison
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." — Joe DiMaggio
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." — Tom Clancy (as quoted in "Don't Follow The Rules", James Van de Walle, Women's Edition, Sept 2004 "You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent—which seemed so important to you when you were young—is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it." — Garrison Keillor, "Keillor Instinct", AARP Magazine, March&April, 2005 "A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the script." — Peter Guber, chairman of Mandalay Entertainment, in "Hollywood to Writers: You're Fired!" by Barbara Basler, AARP Bulletin, Jan 2005
"I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young." — Larry Gelbart, creator of M*A*S*H, in "Hollywood to Writers: You're Fired!" by Barbara Basler, AARP Bulletin, Jan 2005
"It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet." — Tracy Keenan Wynn, in "Hollywood to Writers: You're Fired!" by Barbara Basler, AARP Bulletin, Jan 2005
"A comedy writer who asked not to be named wanted a young writer to 'front' for him. 'But,' he recalls, 'I didn't know any young writers. And I didn't want to hang around outside writing schools saying, Hey, come here kid, i've got a script to show you.'" — in "Hollywood to Writers: You're Fired!" by Barbara Basler, AARP Bulletin, Jan 2005
"Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence
in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very
drunk." — Jackson Beck, the man who regularly introduced
Superman to radio fans, as told to Newsweek
"On a personal note, I remember observing, some 40+ years ago, that one reason I was a good dancing teacher was that I had only limited talent. Because my talent was limited, I encountered most of the problems that the average dancing student encountered. Because I had *some* talent, I could solve those problems. Because I could communicate (a key requirement for any teacher) I could tell others how to solve those problems. (A 'natural' talent never encounters the problems, and therefore doesn't know the solutions.)" — Bob Dolan "We found that people receive more enduring pleasure and satisfaction from investing in life experiences than material possessions," says [Leaf Van] Boven, and assistant psychology professor [at the University of Colorado]." — Linda Castrone, "In the end, we always go back to the classics", Denver Post, April 26, 2004 "Popular culture has always been moronic. It has to be, by mathematics. I mean, one-half of the population is by definition below median intelligence." — P. J. O'Rourke
"Remember, Art is not just another man's name." — John
Macey "Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together." — Mel Brooks, contributed by Stuart Tarbuck "Anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness has never danced in the rain." — Unknown
"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." — unknown
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you best teach it to dance." — George Bernard Shaw "We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." — Confucius Slogan of a country radio station in Kansas: "Am I a winner, or what?" Slogan of 105.9, the classic rock radio station in Chicago: "Of all the radio stations in Chicago, we're one of them." "...when the schtick hits the fans ..." — Joe Jewel |
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