Quotes About People

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal.

We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand.

Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don't want to hear

... but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

It is good people who make good places

I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.