George Sutherland Quotes

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

George Sutherland

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• When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Time
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Unnecessary

• To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Important
  • Art

• Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Game

• There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Art
  • Road

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Fear

• I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Couple
  • Successful
  • First

• I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Me
  • Travel
  • Make

• Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • School
  • Art
  • Like

• We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Living
  • Well
  • Beat

• It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Live
  • Art

• All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Art
  • Autobiography
  • Oyster

• I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • School
  • Think

• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Waiting

• When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

  

  Gerard De Nerval
  • Religion
  • Reflection
  • Return

• Where there is no freedom there can be no morality.

  

  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
  • Freedom
  • Morality

• They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

  

  George Sutherland
  • Art
  • Living
  • Make