Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bridget Riley

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Brie Larson

I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.

Bruce Springsteen

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Brian J. White

I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.

Brian K. Vaughan

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

Brian K. Vaughan

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist,

Brian Austin Green

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

Brian Aldiss

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

Brenda Ueland

... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

Brad Dourif

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

Boz Scaggs

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

Jane Hirshfield

Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's palette. For a long time, I've wanted to invite in more strangeness, more freedom of imagination. Yet music, seeing, and meaning are also cohering disciplines. They can be stretched, and that is part of poetry's helium pleasure. But not to the point of breaking.

Jane Hirshfield

Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

Jane Hirshfield

I've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are places of beauty and of changed landscape is helpful - but far more important for me is that they offer what I feel as a monastic luxury: undisturbed time.

Jamie Cullum

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

Jamie Foxx

Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.

James Vincent McMorrow

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

James Whistler

A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

Laurieann Gibson

I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!

Laura Mvula

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

Laura Marling

I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

Kenneth Branagh

I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.'

Kenneth Branagh

A creative and artistic home is what I've been looking for in the theatre.

Kate Bush

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

Eric Fischl

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

Eric Fischl

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

Elizabeth Price

For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension.

Edward Carey

Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.

Eric Christian Olsen

I was at Pepperdine University in Malibu, and during my sophomore year, I played a dying burn victim on 'ER.' The makeup artist put burn makeup all over my body and I couldn't move or eat for 12 hours. I lost 8 pounds that week.

Elizabeth Peyton

In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes sense to hear what they have to say.

Eric Whitacre

The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.

Edward Herrmann

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

Eric Kandel

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.