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.

Dave Barry

Common criticism of the Internet is that it is dominated by the crude, the uninformed, the immature, the smug, the untalented, the repetitious, the pathetic, the hostile, the deluded, the sefl-righteous, and the shrill. This criticism overlooks the fact that the Internet also offers - for the savvy individual who knows where to look - the tasteless and borderline insane.

Travis Bradberry

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

Bridget Fonda

Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.

Michael Morpurgo

I was an overly young father, is the most polite way of putting it. I think I was rather immature and all I can say is that I think I've made a much better grandfather... I don't think I was ready to be a father to be honest.

Matt Hahn

He was so immature and it showed. He made a lot of young mistakes.

Peter Travers

The pieces in the trailer suggest you may get older but you can stay immature forever.

Dan Chaon

The kind of person I find myself interested in is a cross between being very emotionally complex and very immature. That's what I felt I was like when I was younger.

Yasunori Sone

Being young as a politician means being energetic. But it can also mean that the politician is immature or fragile.

Hugh Prather

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.

Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Aaron Sorkin

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Barbara Corcoran

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

Janice Dickinson

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Creed Bratton

Honestly, I love stealing things.

Bob Beasley

We do take this seriously. It's like stealing taxpayer dollars.

Samuel Liles

They're not stealing from us, they're stealing from God. This is God's house.

George Herbert

The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.