Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelangelo

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Michelangelo

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

Michelangelo

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Michelangelo

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

If the lessons of September 11th and the Asian tsunami are learned, some cold-hearted evil scam artists will use this occasion to perpetrate fraud, lining their own pockets at the expense of hurricane victims.

It has long been a sad fact of the music industry that there are a great many people who try to make easy money off of the talent, hard work and success of young recording artists. Recording artists are starting to fight back in different ways. That is what we intend to do here.

Meredith Monk

I think about that ""empty"" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

I think about 60 percent of the artists are new. I'm really excited about seeing a lot of new people.

I just felt much more comfortable at MICA. They have a great teaching program and they make me feel at home. It's here that I found my voice as an artist and progressed in my art because of the program. It's the best decision I've ever made.

Tim Reynolds

I personally never really play big venues (as a solo act). When you play big shows with bigger scenes, it's the same in the way that every stage is the same; it's like this sacred spot. But the bigger shows are a little more surreal. There's a rapport that the artist you're playing with has developed with the audience on a large level, in this case, Dave. Any song he's gonna play, they're gonna love it, because they know his shit.

Robert Gottlieb

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

CeeLo Green

I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don't have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I'm one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that.

Tom Scholz

I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a Feeling.' After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I'm happy to do it out on stage.

Richard Ernst

I had the great luck to grow up, together with two sisters, in a town that combined in a unique way artistic and industrious activities.

The film is very humorous and fun to watch. It's well crafted and has a well conceived artistic twist.

The first draft reveals the art, revision reveals the artist

The con artists have discovered the Internet, ... Digital Jam.

Morgan Freeman

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

Milan Kundera

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

Mike Leigh

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

Mike Leigh

You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.

Marcel Proust

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

Joseph Altuzarra

I think designers are starting to realize that we're all in the same industry. We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes.

Joseph Beuys

Everyone is an artist.

Joseph Beuys

Every human being is an artist

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

Laurie Simmons

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.

Laurie Simmons

The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies whether they're painting, or have films that influence them.

Lauryn Hill

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Lana Wood

In a pinch, I could always get work in pictures as a makeup artist.

Lisa Origliasso

I was in Nashville and I was having just the most amazing time there, discovering who I was as an artist because that is such a music city. Everyone there is so friendly and inspiring and down to jam.

Lisa Kleypas

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

John Updike

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.