Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Diamond

I'd heard of Rick for a number of years, ... He's kind of a pioneer in the music business, and he's produced so many different types of music and artists that you can't help but know about him. And you wonder, 'What the heck is this guy going to do next?' without realizing that you were what he was going to do next! I found out quickly I was comfortable with him and liked what his ideas were. It was a no-brainer: Let's give it a try and have fun . . . and tell me where to stand.

Joel Kinnaman

I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'

Melissa Rivers

I am very excited to be a part of the CMA celebration this year, especially since it is their first telecast outside of Nashville, ... I'm an enormous country music fan, and can't wait to see many of the artists I know as they walk down the Red Carpet.

I am pleasantly surprised at the wealth of artistic talent that has had a connection to South Jersey, either historic or present day. But I am even more surprised that we continue to learn of more such artists and entertainers every year. Any region of any state would be proud to be associated with artists of such stature.

Juicy J

I am one of those artists who knows where their money is. I pay my bills; I take care of my mama. I handle my business. I am a businessman. I go to meetings and take care of things, so it's a lot more than just partying and turning up.

I believe in this community and its artistic roots, and (I) want to be part of an organization that makes a difference in the lives of residents and artists.

James Cameron

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

He's one of the best artists we could have gotten. All students can relate to his music, and he personally thanked us for having him.

Natalie Imbruglia

How she smiles for the camera: When I'm on a photo shoot, I get my make-up artist to lift her top up and flash her boobs.

Harvey Pekar

I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.

Erica Jong

It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.

Erica Jong

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

Erica Jong

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Eric Church

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

Enrique Iglesias

As an artist, I've been very fortunate.

Jasper Johns

Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.

Jason Momoa

I grew up with artists.

Jason Mraz

I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.

Hilary Rosen

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.

Hilary Rosen

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

Hilary Rosen

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

Hilary Swank

It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.

Herbert Read

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

Herbert Read

If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery.

Herbert Read

Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.

Herbert Read

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

Evelyn Underhill

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

Evelyn Waugh

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

Evelyn Waugh

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

Evelyn Waugh

An artist must be a reactionary

Evelyn Waugh

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Eugene Delacroix

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.