Famous Quotes & Sayings

The artists in the gallery said, Get the gallery moved. They realized the old gallery was going to close.

Jacob Smith

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Angela Jones

The artist series is planning on being at the Keith-Albee for the rest of the season. We are not certain where we'll be next season.

The artists are bending over backward for us. We should have 80 percent of the same lineup.

The artist puts things on the table when many of us are too timid to do so.

Robert Blake

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.

I think it's popular for a number of reasons. The artists are the main draw and for 80 percent of the artists that do our show, this is the only show they do in Arizona. This is the one chance for people to see these artists.

Dallas Green

It got me more recognition from the record labels and more independent artists started to reach out and tried to look to me for guidance to help them out.

I think this shows a growing divide between the expensive Hollywood films, which make a lot of money, and the artistic lower budget films which are made more from quality.

Larry Miller

It is now clear that the controversial practices of companies that provide directories and an easy interface to libraries of unlicensed music are in fact detrimental to the growth of the music business and those artists whom they claim to support.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It's like a skin-toned transfer, and then all the make-up artist has to do is airbrush over it to blend it into the skin. There's nothing like that. At the moment, you literally have to go red and get it to skin color, which takes forever.

John Updike

I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

Justin Chon

I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.

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.

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.

O. Henry

I thought most of the great soul artists were either relegated to the oldies circuit or being stuffed into what R&B has become. I had in mind this idea of a long, continuing series of records.

Rande Gerber

I thought it would be kind of funny to do that. An artist from Holland designed them.

John's film is very brave. Its honesty is very, very powerful, and he's one of the few artists trying to do something we haven't seen before.

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.

Vanilla Ice

I don't hate on any artist actually, not on boy bands, on nothing, it's just music and if you enjoy it then enjoy it. I just have my own opinion of what I like and so should everybody else. I don't try and make everybody else believe in my opinion, everybody's born differently you know, God created us all different.

Kris Kristofferson

I don't have the voice of a Ray Charles or a George Jones or any of those artists I loved.

Margaret Keane

I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.

Bill Watterson

I didn't want 'Calvin and Hobbes' to coast into halfhearted repetition, as so many long-running strips do. I was ready to pursue different artistic challenges, work at a less frantic pace ... and start restoring some balance to my life.

Bill Dixon

I did not make my first recording until I was 37... I did not even start to study music until I was 20... I entered music at a time when New York was this cauldron of incredible artistic and cultural activity.