Famous Quotes & Sayings

Berry Gordy

Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!

Berry Gordy

His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And they did weird things because none of us could understand what was on their mind and why they did what they did.

Berry Gordy

All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.

Bernie Worrell

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

Bernie Siegel

You too are a work of art.

Benjamin Graham

The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and cleverness to bear upon your investment program, instead of realizing a little better than normal results, you may well find that you have done worse.

Benjamin Graham

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

Bruce Nauman

And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.

Bruce Nauman

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Bruce Nauman

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Bruce Nauman

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

Bruce Nauman

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

Bruce Nauman

When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.

Bruce Nauman

What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and I was in the studio, then everything I was doing in the studio should be art . . . . From that point on, art became more of an activity and less of a product.

She's my best friend. She's the best girl. She's my life. She's beautiful and everybody else is crazy about her, too, ... My sister and I are totally different. She could never run the business like I do. She's the artistic side. She can do your hair unbelievable, but she wants nothing to do with the (accounting).

On a personal sense, I've got to use words. There aren't words in these works - there is vocabulary pursued here and there. But, in a personal sense, I'm referring to that very unsteady conversation the artist has with an audience.

Brad Paisley

Some artists would rather go in there and let some other things dictate the kind of record they do, but I've got such a great team.

Dwayne Hickman

Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.

Some are coming to the show specifically because of the subject matter. They're interested in issues pertaining to both art and mental illness and ways people can express themselves. So the qualifier is the attraction.

Judith Miller

Some of his comments suggested insubordination on my part. I have always written the articles assigned to me, adhered to the paper's sourcing and ethical guidelines and cooperated with editorial decisions, even those with which I disagreed.

Angela Jones

Showing the films is really just a different niche for the Artists Series to fill. There's a demand for this type of thing. We're hoping to take the film festival to a different level, go on to bigger and better things.

John Donne

Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere,/ This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere.

William Hazlitt

Silence is the one great art of conversation.

simply because if you look at the music business, there aren't a lot of new artists that can fill up an arena. Realistically, some of the best music today is (by) people like Norah Jones or Alicia Keys (who) are more suited (to) the intimacy of a theater.

Judith Jamison

Since babyhood, I've always evolved from one thing to another. My mother gave me ballet lessons at 6 as part of her enthusiasm for the arts and for life. We went to museums, to the theater. While her own talent was untapped, she worked for church causes.

George Bernard Shaw

She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

She envisioned a place for performing arts and a rich future.

Since I've been here I've found more great programs such as the Business College, College of Arts and Sciences.

Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

Stephen Kinzer

Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.

She is probably the best mezzo-soprano I've ever had in my studio. She has an artistry that is extremely unusual. She can interpret a song far beyond her years.

She is certainly the recognizable face of the movie. She is also an incredibly articulate person and can talk about the movie in a really good way.

Sharon Robinson

She really poured her heart into the kids. She loved teaching art and being able to incorporate the Bible and the word of God into it. As a teacher she took such a special interest into each student. The things she brought out of the kids were unbelievable. I was impressed with the creativity she pulled out of each student.