Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

Jessie Ware

I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.

Jet Li

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

Jessie J

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

Jessie J

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

Jewel

Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

Jewel

I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.

Jerry Uelsmann

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

Jermaine Dupri

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

Jermaine Dupri

The thing I'm going through is probably like the same thing that Little Richard and all these other artists go through, that I hear about them, saying, 'Oh damn, you ain't gonna give me nothing till I die,' ... I feel like I'm one of those type of great people that just going to have to wait till it's all over with for people to really sit around and talk about it.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane - we had a parallel pipeline going on where you had two versions recording Mandarin voice actors, getting it to be funny for Mandarin audiences going beyond a straight translation, and then animating it and lighting it, it's a lot of work.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Aside from that i'm an introvert and i'm a quiet person. The benefit of that is I listen. It's not like my mouth is open and I broadcast everything and i'm drowning everyone out. When I'm listening to the incredible artists I work with and i'm hearing their specialized advice on what they would do with something then we can, all together, as a big collaborative group.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

Gary Shteyngart

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

Gabriel Basso

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

Frank Iero

These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.

Frank Auerbach

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

Christian Morgenstern

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

Christian Wiman

There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist.

Chrisette Michele

The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.

Christian Bale

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

Chris Zylka

I'm an artist; I love everyone.

Jean Cocteau

The artist must know how far to go too far.

Jean Cocteau

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

Jean Cocteau

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

Jean Cocteau

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

George Carlin

For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.

George Carlin

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.

Gene Simmons

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

Garth Ennis

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

Garth Brooks

A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.

Garry Winogrand

Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.

Frank Stella

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.