Art Quote by John Roecker Download Open image “Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion.” — John Roecker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Diversion Done
The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met. — Mark Noble Copy Share Image
I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything. — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
The arts have always been a huge part of my life and experience. The arts are where we get to reflect on our experience… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
Roecker sure is a romantic about certain things, like art and music, though you might not know it from watching Live Freaky! Die Freaky!,… — John Roecker Copy Share Image
Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature… — John Roecker Copy Share Image
Manson's the man who's responsible for "killing the Sixties." He really knew how to play up the whole "most dangerous man alive" thing when… — John Roecker Copy Share Image
Writer-director John Roecker's debut, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will have you convulsing on the floor ... with nausea, laughter, or both. — John Roecker Copy Share Image
I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I… — John Roecker Copy Share Image
It is hard to explain to people now how hard it was being a punk back then [the 1970s]. If you had short hair,… — John Roecker Copy Share Image
I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is? — John Roecker Copy Share Image
Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will be, without a shadow of a doubt, the single greatest film of all time about Charles Manson being the… — John Roecker Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
