Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathan Sawaya

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

Nicholas Haslam

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

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Whether you have extreme artistic knowledge or not, it's going to be something that everyone can appreciate. Who can't enjoy pretty lights?

What about the next artist in Anaconda who wants to paint something downtown?

James Bailey

What he did in the artistic field is what a lot of Japan's top name manufacturers did in their field.

Isaiah Berlin

There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision... and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.

Charlton Heston

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

Charlie Rose

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

Charley Pride

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

Charley Pride

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

Charley Pride

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

Ai Weiwei

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

Ai Weiwei

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

Ai Weiwei

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

Ai Weiwei

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

Ai Weiwei

We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.

Bob Mould

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

Blake Shelton

Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

Billy Joel

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Bill Plympton

I like the idea of seeing a film that has the artist's hand in there,a film where you can see his strokes, you can see his working patterns. It's like going to a museum and seeing a Renoir drawing. You want to see their work and you want to see how they put it together. For me to see that in animation is really fresh, it's really exciting, it's really original.

Beverly Sills

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

Edward Gorey

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

Edward Hopper

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

Edward Hopper

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

Edward Hopper

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

Edward Hopper

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

Edward Hopper

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Edward Hopper

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

Edward Hopper

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

Eddie Murphy

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

Eddie Murphy

If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

Dawn Powell

The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.