Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kirsten Dunst

I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with.

Kim Wilde

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

Kiki Smith

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

Kiki Smith

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Kevin Costner

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

Kenneth Tynan

In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.

Kenny Chesney

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.

Kenny Chesney

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

Kenny Chesney

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

Kathleen Hanna

Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects.

Kathleen Hanna

I am not Lyme disease, that's not who I am, I'm still a feminist artist, but this is a part of my story too, and I'm not going to keep it out to look cooler.

Kathleen Hanna

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

Kathleen Hanna

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

Julia Cameron

In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

Julia Cameron

Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

Julia Cameron

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one

Julia Cameron

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

Julia Cameron

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.

Julia Cameron

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

Julia Cameron

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

H. L. Mencken

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

H. L. Mencken

The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

H. L. Mencken

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media. That ensures your longevity as an artist and prevents you from getting bored with yourself and, hopefully, prevents people from getting bored with you.

Guillermo del Toro

The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn't have happened without you.

Guillermo del Toro

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

H. P. Lovecraft

Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

Grandma Moses

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Georg Baselitz

You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.

Georg Baselitz

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

Jessica Simpson

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

Jessica Simpson

To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.

Jenni Rivera

I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me still.