Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheila Lee

It is through individual efforts with the invaluable assistance of organizations such as Freddie Mac and Hibernia Bank that evacuees will recover from the devastation caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Freddie Mac, Hibernia Bank, and Usher's New Look Foundation with recording artist Usher are to be commended on their humanitarian efforts. The social and practical problems caused by the hurricanes will only be exacerbated by the fact that finding permanent housing can be extremely challenging. I am elated to be a part of this effort.

It's a problem around the world, but it's particularly bad in Latin America. Pirated goods are freely available throughout the region, and it's killing legitimate jobs and stifling artistic creation.

It just seems like a lot of artists are into jewelry, so we had a lot of it. A lot of it was gorgeous. But some was questionable, whether they made it or it was an import.

It's difficult for artists to make it year-round here. You used to get a winter rental for $400 a month. Now it's $1,500.

It's difficult for an artist to make a living in Los Angeles, especially when most venues make you pay or sell tickets to secure your performance slot.

It's a win-win situation. I get a soundtrack that is representative of the city I'm filming in and these local artist get national recognition.

It's about trying to revive our community, its artists and our museum. Like so many other museums, residences and businesses around here, we suffered some damage from the storm.

Ellen Gallagher

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

Ellen Forney

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

Ian McDiarmid

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

I've never come close to seeing an artist working at this level.

Roz Chast

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Shane Filan

I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.

Harry Hamlin

I've been a professional artist for more than 20 years. What I saw in Calvin is he's already got the ability. I wanted to expose him to a lot of different techniques.

Estelle

I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.

Mark Rydell

I've always felt badly that Jimmy wasn't treated with the kind of respect that I thought he deserved, ... Having known him and known how committed and determined he was as an artist and how tortured he was as a human being, and knowing the agonies of his childhood, I felt that this was a good chance to make an honorable psychological portrait of him.

I've always had agriculture in my blood. And I've always wanted to do something artistic. I've never been able to draw or paint. But with bonsai I did it. This is what I'm good at. I like the artistic element and the teaching element.

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

Emily Watson

I wanted to do something artistic with my life but I didn't think I wanted to be an actor, so I went to university and majored in English literature.

Jesse Harris

Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.

Susanne Bier

I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film.

I believe that a Hispanic country star is out there, and that this will happen soon. I also believe that when it does, it will be a woman because female artists in general just seem to make that leap from 'wannabe' to 'star' with more ease.

Hugo Pratt

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.

Janet Fitch

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

Jane Badler

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

Ernest Becker

We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an ex­ternal, active, work project...

Gyorgy Ligeti

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Jean Genet

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Christian Morgenstern

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

Christian Wiman

There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist.

Chrisette Michele

The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.

Christian Bale

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

Chris Zylka

I'm an artist; I love everyone.