Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn't have any other options.

Shepard Fairey

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

Kris Kristofferson

I don't have the voice of a Ray Charles or a George Jones or any of those artists I loved.

Raf Simons

I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.

Julian Schnabel

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

Margaret Keane

I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.

Bill Watterson

I didn't want 'Calvin and Hobbes' to coast into halfhearted repetition, as so many long-running strips do. I was ready to pursue different artistic challenges, work at a less frantic pace ... and start restoring some balance to my life.

Ruben Sierra

I didn't pick it up right away, ... With the glare off the artificial turf, you don't see the ball right off the bat. And then I didn't want to try to catch it and have it go by me.

Lexa Doig

I didn't get that far with the martial arts thing. My boyfriend at the time was a black belt at karate and tried to help me, but I got scared.

I did not realize Artie took over that much. He's certainly capable. I'm glad the kids kept playing hard. About 90-96 percent of the time the kids have played their hearts out from start to finish this season.

Bill Dixon

I did not make my first recording until I was 37... I did not even start to study music until I was 20... I entered music at a time when New York was this cauldron of incredible artistic and cultural activity.

I don't even remember which school it was. But I was like, I'm not even interested in majoring in art history.

I don't even like chocolate, but my eye was casting over the possibilities. I am always interested in things that have a bigger social purpose than just being commercial. If I had my way, everything we sold would have a social mission. As a nonprofit, we're not in the business of creating individual personal wealth but of building social capital. That's part of our mission. I've watched funding for arts education go down in the last 20 years. Anything we can do for integrated arts education is great - for all ages, not just kids.

Fred Thompson

I'd much rather be pitching to Arthur Branch, sitting behind you there, on 'Law and Order,' than you.

Thomas Jane

I'd like to say as I get older, I try to move toward more sophisticated - more complex - material, but that's just not true. As I get older and more mature - as I started to mature as an actor and an artist - I start looking for stories that are really simple... simply told, straightforward stories that don't make any pretenses about what they are, or ones that are couched in other things to give you permission to enjoy them.

Federico Fellini

I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

Pharrell Williams

I don't know, the artist thing is not me.

I don't know where we'd be without him. He truly understands the value and vitality the arts bring to any geographic location.

I don't know what's going to happen after this article is published. If I have to start looking for a new career, I'll do it. It is just important to say that a lot of what people think about coal miners has been blown so far out of proportion, that its hard to set the record straight. Like I said, the water is my fault.

Mark Bradford

I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?

Ken Buck

I don't believe that the science is settled on man-made climate change. And so - while I live in Colorado - you see where I live. I love the environment. And - and I want to make sure we do everything we can to protect the environment. I don't want government to put artificial standards on us.

Richard Rodgers

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

Carrie Coon

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

I don't believe my father ever felt embraced. From the beginning, there was an outpouring of negative articles from the media and a lot of backlash.

Doc Rivers

I do not think you are going to draw art from this game at all. It was not a beautiful game in any way.

I do not think it's appropriate to have elected officials sit in judgment or have to vote on arts issues. I think that's going to jeopardize what we have in Scottsdale.

I do not think it's appropriate to have elected officials sit in judgment, or have to vote, on arts issues. I think that's going to jeopardize what we have in Scottsdale.

Megan Ellison

I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.

Dominic Monaghan

I don't believe in underwear. I think it crushes your artistic integrity.

Marco Tempest

I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.

I can envision the finished painting before I start. I read occasionally about an artist who says I sit before my canvas and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't believe that.

Jeremy Abbott

I can do the tricks and I can skate. I have great skating skills and artistry and well-choreographed programs. For me, the biggest obstacle is just bringing it all together.

James St. James

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek' article about the emerging downtown club scene, and, well, that was it for NYU. I was off and running.