Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roz Chast

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Iman Iman

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

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.

Diana Vreeland

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

Bret Michaels

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

Bobby Sherman

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

Charles Bukowski

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

Lynne Salisbury

We have about 45 artists in the show this year. They usually each show two pieces.

Kelis

There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Nicole Beharie

I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.

Bryan Cranston

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Rebecca West

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

Larry Hagman

I was born with success. Lucky for me, I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it.

Martin Bormann

I do my very utmost to live and act in such a manner that the Führer should remain satisfied with me... but whether I shall always be able to cope with the tasks entrusted to me in the future as well, is an open question.

Molly Ringwald

What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.

Kylie Minogue

I'm not sure that I'll be able to do everything that I did before.

Shigeru Miyamoto

The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Heath Bell

Throw some paint on that. You won't see a thing.

Tony Bennett

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

Roy Lichtenstein

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Max Cannon

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Philip Guston

I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process.

Mac Miller

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

Irving Stone

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Georgia O'Keeffe

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?