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.

Brandon Sanderson

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Bayard Taylor

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

J. D. Souther

I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.

Will Rogers

Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

Ty Warner

I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'

Tony Kaye

So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room.

Adrian McKinty

I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

Crispin Glover

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

Capt. Richter

We don't know if someone is overtly friendly, an eccentric or a predator.

Steve Saviano

When you get to shootouts, it comes down to who has the most talent. Usually the team with the most talent wins. We have a lot of talent on this team and we're pretty talented up front.

Jane Austen

I have no talent for certainty.

Britt Ekland

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

Brett Favre

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Brenda Ueland

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Calvin Trillin

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

Charlie Kaufman

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.