Ben Sollee Quotes

The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind. It's a cliché for a reason - we all kind of work our own paths through the woods. There are not a lot of paths through the woods for someone who sings, plays the cello, and wants to tour on a human scale and create change in the world. I'm on my own path. It's pretty awesome.

Ben Sollee

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• Woods
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• Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Problems

• We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Work
  • Art
  • Ocean

• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Divine

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Art
  • Technology

• The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Reason
  • Same
  • Often

• I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Art
  • Want
  • Me

• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Art
  • Society
  • Myself

• You listeners, the ones who found me first are, I believe, the future of great art thinkers. Because anyone that's found me now I really think is grabbing on to the ideas that I have, more than anything. It's about the music but it's also about the story. So thank you guys for loving and reading the story and being as into it and as passionate as I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Music
  • Believe

• ...if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Art

• The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Art
  • Words
  • Faith

• The method of viewing things which proceeds in accordance with the principle of sufficient reason is the rational method, and it alone is valid and of use in practical life and in science. The method which looks away from the content of this principle is the method of genius, which is only valid and of use in art.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

  

  Billy Childish
  • Art
  • Freedom
  • Sick

• I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Art
  • Happy

• As an artist, you're taking your experiences and placing them into your art. So the more experiences you have, the richer your art and more people can relate to it.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • People
  • Art

• Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • Art
  • Society

• There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.

  

  Jeffrey Jones
  • May
  • Reality
  • Interesting

• I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Father
  • First
  • Television

• And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Nature
  • Opinion
  • Books

• The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind. It's a cliché for a reason - we all kind of work our own paths through the woods. There are not a lot of paths through the woods for someone who sings, plays the cello, and wants to tour on a human scale and create change in the world. I'm on my own path. It's pretty awesome.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Woods