Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cheryl Strayed

Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.

They call it collective energy. It's that same feeling that you get when you meditate amongst a ton of people. What actually makes the festival feel so special is that while you're watching a band or an artist, you're standing there, kind of feeling the same feeling with so many people in such a small space and that gives you collective energy. It's that kind of strange feeling in which you almost feel people breathing.

Cher Lloyd

There's lots of R&B blogs that I like going on and it basically just names new music that isn't out and won't be out for a long time and stuff. It just gives you an insight on what's coming up next and finding out about new artists.

Cher Lloyd

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

Charles Baudelaire

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Charles Baudelaire

As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.

Charles Baudelaire

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

Charles Baudelaire

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Chaim Potok

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

Chance The Rapper

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

Chance The Rapper

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

Chance The Rapper

I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

Charlie Kaufman

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

Charles Saatchi

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

Charles Saatchi

Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.

Bob Ross

We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.

Bob Ross

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

Bob Ross

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

Bill Ayers

Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.

Bob Marley

There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

Bill Viola

I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.

Bill Viola

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.

Bill Watterson

I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.

Bob Kane

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

Michael Leunig

The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.

Nathan Sawaya

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

Nicholas Haslam

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

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Whether you have extreme artistic knowledge or not, it's going to be something that everyone can appreciate. Who can't enjoy pretty lights?

What about the next artist in Anaconda who wants to paint something downtown?

James Bailey

What he did in the artistic field is what a lot of Japan's top name manufacturers did in their field.

We felt it was important for people to have that part of their life available in the Helena community. Now there are many artists here in the Helena community. There are artists who have moved here for that very reason.

Edgar Winter

When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage it any way they so choose... with or without the permission of the artist.