Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Andre

I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

Carl Andre

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

Carl Andre

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

Carl Andre

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

Mike Dowell

We have a sportswriter's award that we'd like you to give to one artist for one piece of art. It doesn't have to be a category winner or best of show winner, anything you like. You pick it.

Sangram Majumdar

When you see a show like this, I think it will make you care a lot more about art. It might make someone go start painting, inspire them to learn about an artist or start buying art.

Jose Gonzalez

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

Agnes de Mille

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Jamie Wyeth

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

Maria Altmann

I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.

Alfred Stieglitz

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

Anthony Powell

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Alexander Smith

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Anatole Broyard

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Mark Gatiss

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

Al Jourgensen

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

Frank Tyger

You can't be envious and happy at the same time

Jaime Ray Newman

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

Maurice Cheeks

In the NBA, it?s a little different. It?s more of a job. I?m sure some NBA players -- I know myself -- are a little envious of just the feeling of it all. It?s a great feeling watching those players, the way they feel -- the feeling that comes out when they lose a game, the feeling that comes out when they win a game. It?s a great thing to watch.

Patrice Servelle

He told us he was envious of us, that he missed it and would like to be with us. That he was with us in spirit, but would have liked to have been in the sled with us.

Michael Keaton

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.

William Shenstone

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes,Desirous still, still impotent to rise.

William Shenstone

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, Desirous still, still impotent to rise.

Johnny Depp

You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be appalled.