Art Quote by Walter Legge Download Open image “I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.” — Walter Legge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Committees Convinced Useless
I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. What is necessary are people like Karajan, [fellow recording producer John] Culshaw and me;… — Walter Legge Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees. — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I have long argued for the arts to have the recognition and funding they need, not only because they brighten our lives, but also… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. What is necessary are people like Karajan, [fellow recording producer John] Culshaw and me;… — Walter Legge Copy Share Image
I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida. — Walter Legge Copy Share Image
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. — Walter Legge 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
