I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
Maya AngelouAdmiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand RussellI think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.
Billy GrahamThe mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.
Oscar WildeOne science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander PopeWithout art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard ShawYes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.
Joel OsteenWhen I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.
Kendrick Lamar‚The Lady’s World‘ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
Oscar WildeInstead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador DaliI like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
Matthew McConaugheyFools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander PopeI admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.
Noam ChomskyI didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
Vivienne WestwoodIn a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.
Bill GatesMusic is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.
AuroraIn any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.
Robert GreeneNo person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
John RuskinIn art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDiplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.
Will RogersMany people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Bertrand RussellThere’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
William ShakespeareIn hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘
J. ColeThe art is long, life is short.
HippocratesObviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.
Frank OceanThe 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.
Kurt VonnegutDrawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador DaliOne of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
Brian EnoIf being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.
John Lennon100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I’ve met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet – I just shut up and bow down.
Karl LagerfeldLike so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.
Michelle ObamaArt’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
Frank OceanNo great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar WildeFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. LewisLife doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody AllenThe more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.
John MuirWhen I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.
Kendrick LamarNothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
Oscar WildeActors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.
Anthony HopkinsEvery picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.
Clint EastwoodI believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
Karl LagerfeldI think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
Oscar WildeMy focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.
Beyonce KnowlesMusic comes to me more readily than words.
Ludwig van BeethovenMusic is like film to me.
The WeekndPolitics is the art of controlling your environment.
Hunter S. ThompsonEurope is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Aldous HuxleyWe can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
Will RogersMy dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.
Clint EastwoodTina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.
Beyonce KnowlesI went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
Steven WrightAny good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
Denzel WashingtonI’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
Maya Angelou‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘
Brian EnoThe bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich NietzscheI have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
John RuskinArt is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. TrumanGreat is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero