Famous Quotes & Sayings

My first memory is of the brightness of light - light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground - very large white pillows.

Gil Kane

My first job came the next year at 16.

Jeff Koons

I'm always trying to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so that they feel open participation.

Don Bluth

Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Bob Kane

I feel that my original style was much more unique and individual and was much more the real me. It had much more zing and schmaltz.

Joe Murray

I fought hard to get this episode on because it dealt with adoption, and how someone feels when they find out who their real parents are.

Maxfield Parrish

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.

Bob Kane

I created the title, masthead, the format and concept, as well as the Batman figure and costume. Robin, the boy wonder, was also my idea.

Bob Kane

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

Bob Kane

It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

Bob Kane

It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.

Faith Ringgold

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

Faith Ringgold

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

Conrad Hall

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

Conrad Hall

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.

Edward Hopper

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Jackson Pollock

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Andrew Wyeth

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

Andrew Wyeth

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Keith Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Jaime is doing the Hispanics living in the United States and dealing with life that way, and I'm doing stories about back home, basically.

Nicholas Sparks

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

Mark Rothko

I also hang the largest pictures so that they must be first encountered at close quarters, so that the first experience is to be within the picture.

Carl Barks

I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

Greg Ginn

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.

Greg Ginn

We aren't as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record.

Greg Ginn

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.

Greg Ginn

You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.

Greg Ginn

We've gotten involved in cat rescue - we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.

Greg Ginn

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.