Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Corgan

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

Billy Corgan

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

Bill Sienkiewicz

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

Bill Sienkiewicz

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

Bill Sienkiewicz

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

Bill Sienkiewicz

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

Bill Dixon

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

Bill Crawford

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.

Bill Cosby

...among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!

Big Sean

To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.

Big Sean

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

Big Sean

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.

Berthe Morisot

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

C. S. Lewis

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

C. S. Lewis

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.

C. S. Lewis

A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

C. S. Lewis

A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.

C. S. Lewis

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

C. S. Lewis

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

C. S. Lewis

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

C. S. Lewis

I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

C. S. Lewis

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

C. S. Lewis

A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.

Carrie Mae Weems

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

Carrie Brownstein

I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musician. It becomes this thing where somehow your art can no longer exist on its own and be multifaceted.

Carrie Brownstein

I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.

Carrie Brownstein

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

Carrie Brownstein

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

Carrie Underwood

We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.

Carl Maria von Weber

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself, -- it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of colour and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men -- who all feel differently.

Carl Maria von Weber

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

Carl Mydans

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.