Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Vreeland

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

David Dean

We want the type of artist who creates art for art's sake. Someone who creates art for themselves, not necessarily to make money.

Alexander McQueen

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

Alex Grey

Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator

E. M. Forster

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

Donna Karan

I like the idea of having many different ways to express myself. There is a part of me as an artist and a creator who would like to express myself in many different ways. But then at the same time I know I have limited hours in the day, and I can only do so much successfully.

Donald Byrd

It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.

Donald Barthelme

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

Jeff Jarvis

What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us

David Bohm

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

David Bohm

Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?

Ram Dass

Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Andy Cohen

Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed - simultaneously - to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

Alexander Hamilton

To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.

Aleksandar Hemon

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.

Aleister Crowley

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.