Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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 a very serious, down-to-earth, no-nonsense artist. She has always talked about intimacy and quietness in her work, and yet she is also the only artist of her generation who has tackled these huge public projects. That is a very rare balance.

She is a superb artist and role model and we all love having her here.

Andie MacDowell

She is an artist that I have a lot of respect for. She's a very strong woman . . . a little intimidating, but in a good way! She passed on a lot of confidence to me.

Mississippi has long been home to writers, painters, sculptors, blues artists, quilters and others who have helped define the very essence of this land, ... Restoring our artists and arts organizations is vital to the rebuilding of this state.

Miles Davis was revolutionary as a jazz musician and as an artist he was eclectic as well. He tried it all.

We have invited four artists to participate, ... We have given them a site walk-through and a general overview of the project, of what we are building, so they have a visual understanding of the setting and the backdrop.

We have heard of these rewards and the process of giving M F Husain protection has already been initiated. The artist is not here at present, but when he enters the country and till such time that the controversy settles down, police protection will be provided to him.

Bruce Cockburn

The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.

Brian Molko

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

Brian McKnight

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

Brian McKnight

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

Brett Ratner

They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.

Boris Vallejo

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

Aretha Franklin

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Ben Okri

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Ben Okri

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

Barbara Kruger

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Barbara Kruger

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

Barbara Kruger

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

Barbara Kruger

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Barbara Kruger

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

Barbara Kruger

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

Barbara Kruger

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

Bai Ling

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.

Auguste Rodin

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

Auguste Rodin

If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.

Auguste Rodin

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.