Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

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

D. H. Lawrence

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

D. H. Lawrence

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

D. H. Lawrence

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

D. H. Lawrence

Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.

Crystal Gayle

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

Danny Glover

Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."

Daniel Ek

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

Daniel Ek

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

Jenny Slate

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

Cassandra Clare

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

Gary Player

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

Gary Oldman

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

Franz Wright

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

Christine Baranski

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.