Me Quotes

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

~ Elliott Erwitt

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

~ Colleen Atwood

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

~ Francisco Goya

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

~ Groucho Marx

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

~ Yayoi Kusama

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

~ Alan Moore

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

~ Frank Stella

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

~ Joakim Noah

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

~ Hans Hofmann

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

~ Roy Lichtenstein

When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.

~ James Frey

I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.

~ Leonard Lauder

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

~ Robert Crumb

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

~ Robert Owen

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life.

~ Marcel Duchamp

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

~ André Gide

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

~ Mark Rothko

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

~ Richard Serra

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

~ John Lasseter

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

~ Shailene Woodley

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

~ Hedy Lamarr

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

~ John Zorn

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

~ Michel Foucault

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

~ Michael Palin

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

~ Laurie Anderson

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

~ Jay Kay

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

~ Noah Taylor

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

~ T. D. Jakes

Social media is natural to me, and it's a very immediate way of saying something. It's the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can't ignore that even if you wanted to. I can't imagine doing politics without it.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

Politics makes me sick.

~ William Howard Taft

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

~ Lou Holtz

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

~ Beau Willimon

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

~ Ralph Nader

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

~ Liev Schreiber

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

~ Barry Goldwater

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

~ Margaret Thatcher

As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.

~ Artur Davis

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

~ Roger Stone