Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wynter Gordon

I toured with Skrillex, did an HBO commercial with Diplo. In the hip hop movement, I was the first artist Travis Scott ever featured with before he blew up. I had the songs with Chris Brown and Tyga. I've worked with some of the biggest artists in the world.

Betty Wright

There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.

Tom Hollander

Acting is a general thing; it's not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of time. I don't think acting stands the test of time, but it can capture the mood of the moment, which is in itself very exciting, but it rarely lasts.

Timothy Hutton

Any time that we read a script and the 'Leverage' team has to infiltrate a place, assume identities, or become con artists ourselves to take down the really bad con artists, it's always fun to do that.

Alexander Theroux

Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.

Alexander Skarsgard

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

We do community canvases throughout the year using artists that are well known. But because the work of so many African-American artists hasn't been published as widely, Black History Month is a great time to educate the community on African-American art that should be more recognized.

Juliet Rylance

We work so hard as young artists to further our careers or improve our technique, sometimes it gets so easy to not actually go and see things like a play or a film. I think the best way to get better is to see other actors do what they do well.

We didn't steer away from the Karla thing this year. We've seen the film. It was just that we decided, for artistic reasons, that we didn't want to screen it.

Shania Twain

Writing is very much a playground; an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

Aberjhani

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader...

Aberjhani

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

Daniel Radcliffe

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

Daniel Clowes

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

Damon Hill

I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas

Damien Hirst

I always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed with us. A lot of people who come to work for you are artists in their own right. And they want to work for you because they want to pick something up.

Damien Hirst

Artists are like everybody else.

Damien Hirst

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

Clive James

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

Clive James

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.

e. e. cummings

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.

Duff Goldman

Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.

Duke Ellington

The artist must say it without saying it.

Dr. Dre

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

Dorothy L. Sayers

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always known it.

Donald Sinden

I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.

This work already gets you to start questioning. Slides are (generally) projected on the wall. But this one is on the floor. It gets you to think artists are turning this very traditional medium into something they can manipulate.

Brian Wilson

Timothy White was the best friend an artist could ever have. The music business lost a true giant when we lost Timothy so suddenly.

This special spirit ... it comes from how the artists feel about their mission.

Herb Alpert

This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz and a desire to support its future, ... It gave them the opportunity to indulge in both passions - to celebrate the great artistry of Dave Brubeck, and to support the Brubeck Institute, a program at the University of the Pacific which, through its Fellowship Program and Summer Jazz Colony, serves to train and nurture the next generation of great jazz artists and innovators.

Olivier Theyskens

Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.