Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Henri Matisse

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

Heinrich Heine

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

Heinrich Heine

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

Henry Ward Beecher

True obedience is true freedom.

Henry Ward Beecher

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Henry James

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

Henry James

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Charles Bukowski

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

Angelina Jolie

I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.

Amos Lee

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

Amy Adams

I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.

Anna Katharine Green

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Anne Roiphe

However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other.

Anne Sexton

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

Anna Deavere Smith

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

Anna Deavere Smith

Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?