Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've got everything from oil painting, photography and blow glass to jewelry and ceramics. We could have 130 artists here, but only the best of the best make it in.

Bill Mumy

Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

Bill Murray

It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.

Benjamin Haydon

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Bertrand Russell

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

Chad Kroeger

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

Cassie Ventura

It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.

Cass McCombs

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.

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.

Bill Griffith

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

Bill Griffith

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

Ariel Gore

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Ariel Pink

I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.

Ariel Pink

I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.

Ariana Grande

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist...