Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iggy Pop

In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

Ian Somerhalder

I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

Howie Dorough

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

Howard Hodgkin

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

Howard Hodgkin

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

Howard Hodgkin

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

Howard Hodgkin

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

Howard Barker

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

Guy Garvey

Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.

He thought other artists were like him, who could see something in another artist and take it.

He's a man of immense artistic talents masquerading as a down-home boy,

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

George Benson

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

George Bernard Shaw

All Artists are Anarchists.

George Bernard Shaw

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

Gena Rowlands

It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much like TV now. They did [Ernst] Hemingway and [William] Faulkner - and they're all wonderful artists and it just was very creative at that time.

Teju Cole

Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example of an artist whose work contains more than you think it does at first glance. Whose work rewards, sustains attention and looking.

Ben Folds is a very popular artist in this area, and he plays some good stuff.

(Blank) is such a distinguished figure in nonfiction cinema. To have him coming to our festival is an incredible honor to us, and a great opportunity to the community to have such a great artist in town.

A. J. McLean

Bill is an excellent teacher for all levels of artists because he is able to make them relax. He has a great sense of humor, which is important in a teacher.

Carlos Santana

Every musician who participated was on the same wavelength and artistic energy as I was... Supernatural is a beautiful example of synchronicity... making it was a truly glorious experience.

Chick Corea

The most important lesson I took from Miles was his certainty as an artist. He was criticized in a lot of different ways, as most artists are ... when they try and do something, but he never wavered from continuing to make the kind of music that he really wanted to make. And that was very inspiring to me, ... that spiritual quality of courage and forthrightness.

A cover is an artist doing a version of another artist's original song,

Some famous artists never see that. For an eclectic group that wasn't going to have an easy time finding a radio format, that's not a bad number.

Adam Carroll

Sometimes I have an idea and I'll kind of write the idea down and sort of tinker away at it until I come up with lyrics around it and see where it's going. Sometimes I have the lyrics in my head and sometimes I imagine another artists singing the lyrics, like a famous person singing the lyrics, and that's kind of how I figure out how they should sound based on who I would want to sing the song.

Jacques Chirac

Now it is the last party to share the friendship Ballet Company of Opera de Paris is the last bouquet we present to China. Because of the company's high reputation of its artistic style and professionalism in the world as well as its long history and powerful artistic vitality, it is the ideal representative to bring down the curtain of Year of France,

Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

The thing about these particular artists is that they're great artists who have been able to dictate the course of their own careers.

I've never come close to seeing an artist working at this level.

Roz Chast

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Shane Filan

I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.

Harry Hamlin

I've been a professional artist for more than 20 years. What I saw in Calvin is he's already got the ability. I wanted to expose him to a lot of different techniques.

Estelle

I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.