Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joey Skaggs

I loved painting and sculpting, but realized how difficult it was for a young artist to be taken seriously by the art establishment.

Tiesto

I love L.A., but I don't live there. I spent some time there when I was recording 'Kaleidoscope,' mainly working with some of the artists I collaborated with. The city and people in L.A. have a great vibe and the weather is always beautiful.

It's more work to sell a $1000 work by an emerging artist than a $20,000 work by an established one.

It's something important in the relationship between the artist and his public.

Wyclef Jean

It's not fake. I don't need to go in the studio, throw in a record, do a loop and put it out. To find an artist, you've gotta find the artist that brings it to you. There has to be a 50/50 balance.

Education is a significant part of our mission here at the Tyler Museum of Art. This exhibition was organized to recognize the contributions these artists make every day in their chosen profession of teaching art.

Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.

Keith Sweat

Everybody said the same thing: 'Thanks but no thanks. Your songs just aren't hot enough for our artists to sing.

The board is determined to steer the company, which has an extremely strong roster of artists and a strong 30-year track record, back to a profitable trading position and back to sustainable long term growth.

The Big Push is for artists who have proven their skill and all they need is exposure.

It was less of a battle and more of a showcase of the artists' work. Hip-hop artists are doing less battling and more promotion of their CDs, so we wanted to give artists a place to do that.

Emmylou Harris

I wanted to be a country artist because I wanted to carry on what Gram was doing, even though I didn't quite understand it because I had only worked with him a year. I just experimented and did what I felt was right.

Toby Keith

I've got three or four really mainstream double-platinum kind of artists that are kind of late in their deals, too, that have contacted us. They trust in the fact that I'm willing to stand up and fight for the rights of songwriters and artists.

Cassandra Peterson

There's 20 really cutting-edge, cool artists on there, so I was so thrilled to be a part of it, ... And it's a really fun song.

This is what happens when you have a live show, these things happen. We didn't run full sets of some artists because we would have had to lose other artists altogether. We ran only eight hours, and there were 40 to 50 hours of performances. We wanted to be equitable.

This is truly a remarkable evening where artistic achievements are honored, talents are recognized and future aspirations are encouraged.

They're being profiled, ... Over and over, our artists are targets only to be later found not guilty. Like (Sean) 'Puffy' (Combs).

They're basically cinder block walls and a black concrete floor right now. We feel it's important to make the artists feel special and important, and that, we think, will help them put on a better show for the audience.

They're all artists that I know and have played for me over the years. They're gracious enough to donate things.

David Ross

They realized that those artists still had strong fan bases and recognition, and they used those assets to their advantage.

If we want to go global, the focus has to be on the quality. It's a trial-and-error process whose end-result is an artistic creation of refined quality. Each item, no matter whether it's for collection or personal use, has to be perfect.

Neill Blomkamp

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

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If you're a real artist it would take more determination to subdue the desire to paint.

If you're in a band like Travis, you work with artists - whether video directors or whatever - and you let them get on with it.

If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, 'Let's have the artist play just before Gaga.' Now you've exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It's similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.

Elizabeth Armstrong

If you look at the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection now, it doesn't tell the story of what was happening during the '30s and '40s. While Myron prefers the representational, I think you can see he likes artists who pushed realism as close to abstraction as possible.

Anthony DeCurtis

In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work.

Max Bill

In one of these recently conquered domains, the artist is now free to exploit the untapped resources of that vast new field of inspiration.

I probably wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the gay community supporting me. I wouldn't be the artist I was today if it wasn't for that because that was the only community that let me try, let me perform without knowing who I was.

In the next 24 hours he will be personally reaching out to all of the artists to ask them to join him in this project,

Internet con artists are bad actors without borders.

Shilpa Shetty

If you saw me without concealer, you would see that I have raccoon eyes. And I think my forehead is too small. I am not quintessentially beautiful. I am photogenic, but that's only because I have learned how to make the best of what I've got from the make-up artists I have worked with.