Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyril Connolly

It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.

Nikki Sixx

I'm sober, and I'm sick. I'm sick in the head. And all that support and all that great stuff around me allows my artistic side to be even more demented.

Damon Albarn

Manchester is the centre of Britain, we're only ever going to do this once so it makes sense to do it somewhere in the middle of the country. London gets all the gigs. It's time to do something a bit different to readdress the balance. We're very excited to be getting all the guests artists together in one place for these shows.

Bebe Neuwirth

Artists need to express.

Beck

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

Bob Brown

(Mark's) probably the most talented living stained-glass artist in the world, ... He would be the Tiffany of today.

Many young artists today only experience copyright as an obstacle, a source of incomprehensible demands for payment, cease and desist letters, legal transaction costs. This is a shame because copyright can be a valuable tool for artists and creators of all kinds -- even for those who are trying to share their work without charge.

Terry Teachout

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.

Len Cariou

I was in Canada running the Manitoba Theatre Centre as artistic director and I had written to Mr. Prince and asked him if he would give me his stage manager copy of the musical 'Company,' which I was going to do in my season there, ... He said, 'Yes,' and then said, 'By the way, Stephen's written you a musical and I'm going to send you the book.'

I think people can spend a little too much time chasing their tail. They worry too much about small details, many times artists push the output of their printers. They question, 'Why can't the quality be better?' Unfortunately, cost and production often limit their abilities.

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

Andrea Martin

I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.

Thomas Campbell

I think of those weavers working through the damp Christmas months to get the tapestry done in six months per the contract in Florence, and clinging to every minute of daylight. Probably they had the artist breathing down their neck.

Michael Wallace

We do some newer songs too by artists like The Goo Goo Dolls, Jack Johnson and Jet.

We are thrilled that Sally Mann and Catherine Opie responded with such enthusiasm to curator Thomas Padon's invitation to create new work especially for the exhibition. Looking at all of the photographs in the exhibition, I am still struck by the diversity of artistic expressions to the form, atmosphere and symbolism of the garden.

Eddy Cue

We have all labels except for Sony and we are working with them and we know their artists would like to be a part of this launch - and we hope they will join us soon.

Ron Moody

We've lost a great artist and I've lost a great friend. We were more like Laurel and Hardy. We used to call ourselves Fagin and Dodger. We had that kind of bond between us. Jack really was cheated out of a great career.

We have more than 50 artists represented who will be displaying and selling their work,

Charlie Wilson

With the Gap Band coming from Oklahoma, other artists would tease us by calling us cowboys. We didn't grow up on a ranch, but we took that style to the stage. We knew that it was corny, but at least it was ours.

We haven't set a date, we've got preparations to do in terms of choreography, ... It will be artistic and it will involve body paint.

Amy Fisher

You can certainly be an artist anywhere, ... But it's helpful to live in a community that has a consciousness of the arts and a desire for visual stimulation.

We'll be using our forensic tools, imaging technology and our artists to help with the unidentified bodies, ... Our fear is that, as the waters decline, there are going to be thousands.

Wyclef Jean

When I think about the biggest studios in New York, they're owned by people that are not musicians or artists, and artists come in and spend their money there, and they'd rather do that, as opposed to getting the headache. So they pay someone else to get the headache.

Sarah Jones

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist who's ever sat down and been moved to create something, has been living in a context. A political moment that's most often reflected in their work. Even if you're, you know, kind of a nature poet.

We expect 17 million-plus visitors annually through Victory Plaza. The Victory Media Network will offer intriguing and engaging video entertainment. Our programming will be rich with cultural and artistic content -- but continually changing in order to keep it different and fresh. To do that, we'll be showcasing film and digital art from local and national artists, as well as Dallas museums and galleries.

We really wanted each artist to respond from their own practice, so the images have a commonality of the experience and the subject matter and the etching process, and also the diversity of the artists' background.

We have some pulp made from blue jeans and recycled artist prints. We'll put some seeds in one of the vats, so you can stick the sheet of paper in the ground and the seeds will grow. This will be a nice piece of paper to write on. They'll be able to scoop the fiber out of a tub, press it and form it and take it home to dry.

Kaskade

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

Michael Connelly

I think Harry and jazz go together for a lot of reasons. For the most part, he listens to artists who had to struggle to make their music, whether because of their personal demons and ills or those of society. They had to fight to make their music, and that is the bridge to Harry. In his own way, he has to fight to make his music.

Andy Lau

I think Fruit Chan is an interesting director because he could offer a purely commercial attraction with artistic subjects and personalities.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

The artists were referring to their own traditions, but because of the melting pot of the group they moved beyond that as well.

The artists themselves talk to young people about their own financial journey toward empowerment.