Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.

Our lives are so hectic today. I don't care what we are, artists or whatever, people need to come and enjoy it.

Our legal folks say we don't have copyright clearance. Graphics artists are working on it as we speak.

Karen Hughes

Our music and film industries, our artists and entertainers create very powerful impressions, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always, always powerful.

Stephanie Szostak

People in fashion treat it as a business... I guess Hollywood is a business, too, but you talk about story: you talk about a more artistic world than in fashion.

Shawn Colvin

I think that the indefinable space between happy and sad is the most moving and compelling place for an artist to be. If there's anything I consistently strive for, it's a melancholy limbo.

I think we have a really strong artistic showing here in the valley. And I think everybody is wanting to reconnect with the open treasures (the land) we have left.

Simon Cowell

I think we've got better talent than last year, There are two or three contestants, even without the competition, we would take seriously as a record label. If I don't find an international artist this year, then I will have failed. That is the one thing that interests me,

Chris Cornell

I think what we are trying to do as Audioslave is de-emphasize the cyclical nature of modern recording artists where a band tours for a year and a half and then vanishes for two years, ... What we'd like to do is make records and tour. Write music, tour, record, tour. Keep it all going all at once like bands did in the '70s. Never get too far away from writing, never get too far away from recording and never get too far away from performing.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really got involved. It was just somehow - and I thought that the artistry was all in the theater.

I think each artist has their own way of painting, and it really brings out an artist's personality whenever they paint. It's like a piece of them is, you know, in the painting.

Neill Blomkamp

I think filmmakers in general are, as the tools become more and more advanced, you're able to tell stories in a way that I think is more realistic. The technology just wasn't there up until pretty recently, and it takes a bit of time for the normal artistic way of approaching something to become a mainstream thing.

I see it everywhere, whether you're an artist selling your goods from the trunk of your car or an auto repair mechanic or folks selling products door-to-door.

People are extremely excited about the lineup. In the first place, people are thrilled that the festival is even happening, but beyond that collective sign of relief ... folks are incredibly excited about the number of jazz legends and artists we're presenting in 2005.

People are either artists who want to make music and make headlines or they are really celebrities who are flash in the pan and grab as much (as they can) when that flash is hot,

Penn Jillette

For us to make any sort of statement that our artistic expression is being trounced would be self-serving, unpleasant and not true.

Alan Rosenberg

We need consultation and eventually we need compensation. Whatever happened to artistic integrity? When did we lose the right to say yes or no?

We never 'made' a star, ... but we gave a lot of artists an opportunity for exposure. A singer has to do a lot of work in smoke-filled bars to be a good singer.

Billy Corgan

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

Billy Corgan

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

Billy Corgan

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

Bill Sienkiewicz

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

Bill Sienkiewicz

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

Bill Sienkiewicz

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

Big Sean

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

C. S. Lewis

Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.

C. S. Lewis

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

Carrie Brownstein

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

Carrie Underwood

We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.

Carl Maria von Weber

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

Carl Sagan

The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse.