Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anish Kapoor

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic

Anish Kapoor

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

Anish Kapoor

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Dolly Parton

Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.

Derek Luke

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop 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.

Alex Grey

Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator

E. M. Forster

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

Donna Karan

I like the idea of having many different ways to express myself. There is a part of me as an artist and a creator who would like to express myself in many different ways. But then at the same time I know I have limited hours in the day, and I can only do so much successfully.

Donald Byrd

It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.

Donald Barthelme

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

Donald Sutherland

Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

Donatella Versace

Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.

Don Johnson

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Don Johnson

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

Don Everly

I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.

Dylan Lauren

Anytime you can promote young artists and designers is a cool thing.

Dylan Thomas

There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

Don Watson

Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.

Dale Chihuly

I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

Craig McCracken

I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

Craig McCracken

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

Constantin Stanislavski

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

Constantin Stanislavski

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

Andy Goldsworthy

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.