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

• When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Art
  • Community
  • Advance

• Don't count the days, make the days count.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Make
  • Days
  • Count

• Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Moon

• I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gave me something to springboard from, which I wouldn't have had if I'd come out to Los Angeles early and been guest punk of the week on 'Hill Street Blues.'

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Kids
  • Education

• Always take a chance on better, even if it seems threatening.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Chance
  • Threatening

• 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