Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

Charles de Lint

The best artists know what to leave out.

Alan Price

We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.

Alan Moore

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

Alan Bean

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

Alan Alda

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

Akon

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Akira Kurosawa

The role of the artist is to not look away.

Chris Blackwell

I never liked the whole thing about pictures with the artists. You look back at an Elvis Presley record, and you don't see any producer credits, because the audience is not supposed to know about the producer credit.

Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Caroline Kennedy

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

Antony Sher

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

Channing Tatum

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

Jan Karon

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Brett Eldredge

I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Gia Coppola

My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

There are things that are happening way earlier than [the Oscars] when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie.I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.

I want to be a part of great things.

I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

I always knew the woman I wanted to be.

For every 10 good things, there's always some jerk that wants to say something bad.