Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Cowell

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

Simon Cowell

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

Shirley Manson

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

Shirley Manson

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.

Shepard Fairey

As a street artist, I'm used to sharing my stuff with the public. It's a communal experience. I've learned not to be so precious, but rather to enjoy the process.

Shepard Fairey

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

Shakira

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

Serj Tankian

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

Tipper Gore

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.

Tinie Tempah

Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

Tite Kubo

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.

Robert Adams

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

Robert Adams

Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.

Robert A. Heinlein

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

Rihanna

Something is wrong with Eminem. He has so much in his mind that I almost feel lucky that he has music. I feel like he has so much in his head that music is such a great release for him. He is one of my favorite artists. Absolutely.

Richie Havens

I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'

Tim O'Reilly

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

Tim O'Reilly

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Tilda Swinton

This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.

Tim Allen

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.

Steven Shainberg

Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.

Steven Soderbergh

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

Toni Morrison

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.

Toni Morrison

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

Rebecca Ferguson

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

Victoria Legrand

As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.

Victor Pinchuk

Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.

Robert Frost

Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.

Robert Frost

The artist in me cries out for design.

Robert Black

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

Rita Mae Brown

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

Richard Thompson

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

Richard MacDonald

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.