Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian McKnight

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

Brian McKnight

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

Brett Ratner

They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.

Boris Vallejo

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

Aretha Franklin

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Ben Okri

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Ben Okri

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

Barbara Kruger

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Barbara Kruger

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

Barbara Kruger

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

Barbara Kruger

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Barbara Kruger

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

Barbara Kruger

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

Barbara Kruger

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

Bai Ling

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.

Auguste Rodin

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

Auguste Rodin

If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.

Auguste Rodin

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

Arthur Miller

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Art Garfunkel

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

Art Spiegelman

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

Natalie Cole

Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.

Maurice Jarre

Lean was a director always compromised with his work, but not only in directing, but also in the other technical and artistic aspects.

Dolly Parton

Many of the artists and musicians were already committed to family gatherings or other concert appearances, ... All of us involved want to put on the best show possible, so we decided to reschedule.

Norman Jewison

Many of our graduates have gained national and international recognition for their creative excellence. We welcome the support of the Ontario government in giving our local artists a chance to make a huge difference both here and abroad.

Many so-called artists are really products of nature's art.

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

Many artists that I met don't know what existentialism is. But it is these things that contribute to the most deep-inside spirit of my works.

Jane Rosenthal

Sept. 11 was the most photographed event in the world. The media has shown it over and over again. Over time, artists have digested it. I think it's very important to see filmmakers' point of view. Why not now?

So it's fun to be on the ground floor of understanding what artists will be doing in the years to come.

Ryan Key

She's the real deal, so it's not as lame as some other people. I hope at some point people will realize what's real and what's not real, and who's an artist and who's not, and who doesn't deserve to be.

She works way harder than we do. You see some artists who are nowhere near in their career where Dolly is, and they complain about all the stuff they have to do. She comes into a rehearsal and sings 'Coat of Many Colors' like it's the first time she ever sang it. It's changed our whole attitude.

Denis Diderot

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.