Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.
– Hugh MacLeod
Related Quotes:
- The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does. – Hugh MacLeod
- Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle-”that is, being human. – Hugh MacLeod
- ..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job. – Hugh MacLeod
- They’re only crayons. You didn’t fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now? – Hugh MacLeod
- GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED. – Hugh MacLeod
- The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care. – Hugh MacLeod
- He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The rich aren’t paying for luxury – they’re paying for basic humanity. – Lindy West
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- Every moment is a moment of hope, moment of beauty, a moment of joy and it is our life. – Debasish Mridha
- Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off. – Joan Marques
- Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I’m touching, so I’d better start paying attention to what I’m touching. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Start small.Start now.Start everything.And don’t bother to finish any of it. – Barbara Sher
- To start speaking my language start reading what I read… start reading what I have written. Listen to what I have listened. – Deyth Banger
- [W]e must start from somewhere in current folk morality, otherwise we start from somewhere unintuitive, and that can hardly be a good place to start – Frank Jackson
- If you want to help people we have to dive into people wade into the sea of humanity. – Hugh Halter Matt Smay
- Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. – Julian Barnes
- Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you. – Amy Poehler
- When it comes to recognizing your greatness, start first within your mind. Start now, in this moment. Imagine, imagine, imagine and then believe! – Julieanne OConnor
- Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead. – Doug MacLeod
- Are you sure this is a good idea?’ I ask.-˜No,’ says Amber. -˜Let’s do it. – Doug MacLeod
- No one here is allowed to die without my permission. – Doug MacLeod
- Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?’ I asked.-˜You cannot take these flowers,’ said Zoran. -˜They belong to the government. – Doug MacLeod
- The Christians had an almost miraculous talent for turning wine into water. – Ken MacLeod
- Funny how I keep forgetting you’re insane.- – Colleen O’Brien – Shannon MacLeod
- Food shouldn’t be that shade of green, lass.- -“ Faolán MacIntyre – Shannon MacLeod
- The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you. – Cyc Jouzy
- The moment you start to think you understand love is the moment you don’t feel it anymore. – Ana Kostovska
- Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious. – Madeleine LEngle
- Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. – Jasper Johns
- Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. – Joanna Russ
- You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art. – Seth Godin
- Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. – Edward Hirsch
- I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It’s art if you see it as art. – Andy Warhol
- You know what? I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m gonna make art, arty art art! – Andy Biersack
- Don’t just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for ‘create art’ and see if it fits). – Richie Norton
- Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own. – Sarah Cross
- Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human. – Jonathan Smith