Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Willis

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.

Josef Albers

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

FKA twigs

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

Common

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.

Thomas Kinkade

Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.

Alex Grey

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

Alex Grey

Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.

Blake Shelton

The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is what all the other artists are doing. You need to be doing it also.' I didn't really have a clue what is was.

Blake Shelton

I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.

Billy Porter

I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.

Banks

I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

Bryce Dallas Howard

There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.

There are a lot of local artists and we have a lot of activities. I think we bring a lot of tourists because of the importance of the arts here and people are thinking about Beaufort County. Not only about our beautiful scenery but also about the arts.

If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we will find the audience is gone in 20 to 30 years. I find as I keep a broader audience in mind, I choose to sing and say more things I actually want to share and fewer things just for the sake of impressing others.

Henry Petroski

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that much. The measure is the work and how you think your work is perceived. How the museums are. How you are doing.

David Henry Hwang

For a long time, it was hard for me to get my work done in Chicago. Silk Road gave me opportunities to do shows like 'Golden Child' - shows that nobody else seemed interested in. And they bring an artistic integrity to the work that matches anything you'll find at a bigger theatre.

Donny Osmond

My political ideas and things like that, even my religion, I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing, and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that, like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world, I'm just an entertainer.

Finding artists for our stamp collection is a matter of rigorous selection, ... (Sims') artwork was chosen out of hundreds of artworks submitted to us. I believe she is also the only artist in the collection from Alabama.

Financial success as a fine artist is largely a product of time, timing and marketing - assuming of course that good art is being produced all the while.

Fans of these artists will die to have content like this that's unique.

Percy Sledge

I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists - the Beach Boys, the Temptations, the Four Tops. Otis Redding. Wilson Pickett. Stevie Wonder. So many great singers. And don't forget Clarence Carter!

David Bowie

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

David Bowie

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

Andrea Riseborough

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

Robert Graham

We see three types of hackers out there, ... There are voyeurs, like peeping toms; graffiti artists that trash the Web site and tell their friends; and criminals who steal things, such as customer lists.

We're talking Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Willie Nelson all of those big acts, big artists from that era.

David Kim

The past few years have seen an even greater collaboration between video games and the music industry, a trend that I think will only grow in the future. There aren't very many outlets for exposure available today ... where an artist can easily reach more than a million potential fans instantly.

William Shatner

This show is about the kind of songs you like and can sing, but you can't remember the artist because maybe they never caught on again. We give those artists some renown.

This should put some steel in their spine. Canadians overwhelmingly understand that musicians and other artists are harmed by illegal file-swapping and deserve better protection under the law.

Bob Richards

The person who's writing and performing those songs wants to get to know the fans even more. Find out how close that song is to their real life, what it means to them. The earlier in the process that we can start connecting those artists with fans, the better.

John Glover

The power that an artist can have to move people, I just want to equip myself better with those kind of skills. I see myself as a character actor, not as a leading actor, and in something like ""Time of Your Life,"" I'm being asked to strengthen my chops and take some responsibilities. There's some kind of deepening that needs to be done.