Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Chloe Grace Moretz

If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.

Chogyam Trungpa

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

Denis Waitley

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Baltasar Gracian

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Edmund Burke

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

Jeaniene Frost

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

Joshua Reynolds

By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.

Caroline Corr

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

Nick Hays

There are copies and copies of copies. We're sorting through it.

Glenn Miller

We started 14 months ago. The original edition was 10,000 copies and we're now up to 70,000.

Liu Jun

Since lots of people's marriages are similar copies of their parents, it's essential to know about the family background.

Mark Borckardt

There are a lot of copies out there.

McRae Reed

We sent out about 200 copies of the first record and within a month, everyone seemed to be playing it.

Ken Johnson

Much of the increase in generic drug use advocated by Express Scripts involves switching patients to medicines different from those prescribed by their physicians. They are not generic copies of the prescribed treatments. Patients differ from one another, as do medicines in a therapeutic class. It is important that the patient and his or her physician determine which medicine is right for the patient.

Jamie Wyeth

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.

David Bailey

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.