Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Wilson

Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!

Mallory Ortberg

The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

like any cultural institution, stands for artistic freedom.

Madonna's a pretty mainstream artist ... I'd expect a bigger alternative kind of artist. It's kind of interesting.

Let's let the music be the star again. Let the artist be the star again.

Edmund Wilson

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations -- like that of artistic imagination.

Talib Kweli

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

Tess Henley

My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

Brian Eno

Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.

Brian Eno

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Brian Eno

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Bret Michaels

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

Brandi Carlile

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

Brandon Boyd

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

Bootsy Collins

I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

Boris Kodjoe

I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.

Boris Kodjoe

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Boris Kodjoe

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

Bob Colacello

He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.

Bob Colacello

Fortunately I had a great intern who did a lot of the research on Andy's prices, which of course are phenomenal, but getting them straight - you know, he's reached this $100million plateau that only a handful of other artists have reached, which puts him in the company of Cezanne, Klimt, Picasso, and such.

Bob Colacello

A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.

Bob Dylan

Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures.

Bob Dylan

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

Bob Dylan

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

Billy Childish

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

Billy Childish

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

Billy Currington

Anytime I get to be around the fans it's always a good time, especially during Music Fest. CMA puts together an event that allows artists to make that personal connection with the fans and it's wonderful. I look at it as our chance to give back to them and let them know we appreciate their support.

Billy Connolly

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

Boris Pasternak

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

Bruce Dern

If the film isn't in some way going to study behavior then I'm not interested, but the reason why I'm not interested in directing in film is that it would take me, to be as good an artist as I feel I am an actor, it would take me another 35 just to conquer...

Bruce Dickinson

In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.

Bruce Dickinson

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

Bridget Riley

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict