Famous Quotes & Sayings

Corita Kent

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

Corey Taylor

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

Dana Spiotta

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

Dana Spiotta

There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?

Dane Cook

There were times, earlier in my career, where I didn't have the wherewithal to self-edit, and I probably said things and pushed the limits to places where people might be put off. But that's truly part of developing as an artist.

David Byrne

Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.

David Byrne

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

Dave Eggers

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

David Geffen

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

David Bowie

I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.

David Bowie

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

David Bowie

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

Debbie Harry

Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.

Debbie Harry

To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

Amber Rose

I really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics.

Anna Netrebko

I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. Its not the diva speaking. Its the artist who knows how it has to be done.

Anna Pavlova

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

Claire Bloom

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

Cindy Sherman

I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, 'I don't know that many women that really do that.... Damn it, I'm gonna do that-make this really big picture.'

Ciaran Hinds

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

Chuck Palahniuk

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Angela Carter

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

Amiri Baraka

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

Anthony Burgess

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Andy Warhol

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

Andy Warhol

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

I was interested in the nuts and bolts of its chemistry, the thermodynamics. I learned to blow glass in an artistic vacuum.

Jason James

Knowing that my wish list was pretty lofty and already busy working on other projects, I wrote Johnny Repeat in distinct chapters so high-caliber artists could contribute without having to make a 100-page commitment. I'm calling it 'cosmic noir.' I can't wait for everyone to see it!

Corin Tucker

Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they're doing... part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.

Eric Kandel

I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them to talk to one another to, perhaps, give rise to specific ideas that may or may not be carried out together.

I would sooner destroy a stained glass window as an artist like yourself. However, since I can't have you following me either.

Roger Bart

I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because they were an easy A. I loved being in plays and musicals too, but you didn't really get credit for those.

He didn't need as many artists as he originally had planned for.