Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hedda Sterne

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

Hayley Kiyoko

It's tough as an artist to have such a specific vision for your video in mind when you write a song. Reaching out to directors is like going on blind dates and trying to find someone who sees the exact vision behind your music, which can be really difficult.

We're not going to limit ourselves to only traditional and new digital models for selling music. We're going to look at every artist as a unique and special brand and look at what business relationships we can get into.

Kurt Vonnegut

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Kurt Vonnegut

I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’

Eckhart Tolle

The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Edward Ruscha

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

Edward Ruscha

Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.

Edward Ruscha

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

We have invited four artists to participate, ... We have given them a site walk-through and a general overview of the project, of what we are building, so they have a visual understanding of the setting and the backdrop.

We have heard of these rewards and the process of giving M F Husain protection has already been initiated. The artist is not here at present, but when he enters the country and till such time that the controversy settles down, police protection will be provided to him.

Bruce Cockburn

The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.

Brian Molko

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

Brian McKnight

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

Brian McKnight

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

Brett Ratner

They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.

Boris Vallejo

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

Aretha Franklin

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Ben Okri

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Ben Okri

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

Barbara Kruger

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Barbara Kruger

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

Barbara Kruger

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

Barbara Kruger

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Barbara Kruger

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

Barbara Kruger

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

Barbara Kruger

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

Bai Ling

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.

Ben Shahn

Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.

Ben Shahn

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Ben Shahn

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.

Bat for Lashes

I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.