Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm going to be inviting outside artists to come in and speak. I'm also going to help students become more aware of career choices in art.

Lilly Singh

Independent content these days can be more successful than previously because of the power of social media. However, there are still systems in place to make sure independent artists don't get as far as signed ones.

Alex Honnold

In climbing, sponsors typically support an athlete but provide very little direction, giving the climber free rein to follow his or her passion toward whatever is inspiring. It's a wonderful freedom, in many ways similar to that of an artist who simply lives his life and creates whatever moves him.

Christo

In 1964, Jeanne-Claude and I became illegal aliens. That's when we moved here from Paris. And for three years, we were illegal aliens living in an illegal building. At that time, some artists started to move to SoHo, and they put A.I.R. - artists-in-residence - up on their windows.

In just over a year Napster has attracted a community of more than 20 million music fans who are sampling music, discovering new artists, buying CDs and sharing their passion for their favorite artists in our chat rooms.

In all practical purposes there hasn't been an artist that has only broken online, there has always been some sort of other tie-in.

In all of our shows, we have a narrative. When you have music in the forefront, the lyrics help people understand (the story). The other main focus in 'Delirium' is multimedia. We're using it as never before. We did a 10-day video shoot in Montreal with the characters, acrobats, artists and dancers in the show. We also have a live camera onstage.

In a little more than three years, the artists went out and the businesses came in.

I like it because it combines the artistry of dance with the athleticism of sports.

Terry Crews

I kind of rode this weird line between athlete and artist. It was a little different because most of the athletes were total jocks, and most of the artists dressed in black and were kind of considered a little on the fringe. But I hung out with both crowds in my high school.

Andrea Anders

I'm ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as an artist because you're not only working on a project, but you get to work with cameras, and you get the audience there.

Debbie Allen

I'm respectful of other artists and I think there is a way to talk to actors to let them know they are making this. It all has to come through them.

Tony Bennett

I'm just so thrilled that all these contemporary artists want to sing with me. They're all making me feel so good.

I'm more and more confident of the answer. We have a wonderful crop of (younger) artists who are going to be around for a long time and who value the traditions of country music.

Billy Corgan

It's my role as an artist to basically destroy the obvious and recreate the obvious, to put it back together into a form that maybe you wouldn't have considered, ... I'm not into making things unimaginable.

It's my guess that those cutting-edge artists who attack tradition secretly believe tradition will survive to enshrine them as the wild and crazy geniuses who destroyed it

It's unfortunate that people haven't been forward-thinking enough to come up with a commerce model for file sharing that makes sense, There must be at least a dozen ways that they could make a ton of money, and pay the artists money, as well.

Dan Futterman

Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.

John Updike

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

Finn Wittrock

Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.

Consumers need to be able to get music in a place that resembles an online version of a music store, where they don't need to know which artist belongs to what label to find the music.

Consumers and artists dislike the major labels. It's a terrible business. Who wants to be at war with everybody?

Steve Erickson

The notion of artistic responsibility begs questions with no satisfactory conclusions, the most inevitable and ineffectual being that we should just keep thinking and talking about it, given that the alternative - a governmental body monitoring the movies we make and see - is unacceptable.

The objective of the contests is to get new music heard and reward artists on a periodic basis.

The best way to get something good from an artist is to give them a direction and let them go with it. Nobody really wants a duplicated tattoo on them. We can do pretty much anything people want.

James Rosenquist

The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.

Joe Queenan

No artist has ever remained as consistently bad for such a long time.

Jeffrey Osborne

The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson.

Greg Daniels

The basic artistic guideline of the show is to be observational and find the humor in real life, so it's good to be from a real place.

Joan Armatrading

The band has changed a lot because I'm a solo artist and the constant for me is I've got to have changes which keep me interested.

The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride.

Karl Kraus

The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it.

David Butler

That form was very much generated by his interactions with the site. I would never start out by saying, 'We want it to look like this.' You have to let an artist do what they are good at.