Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Stewart Cink

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

Mark Joseph

Ralph is not only a man of accomplishment, but a man of integrity. Those of us who knew and loved Bob are confident that Ralph is just the kind of artist that he hoped would one day take the stage.

Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Pavlos Flourentzos

The style of the decoration is unique, not so much from an artistic point of view, but for the subject and the colors used.

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.

Estelle

I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.

Mark Rydell

I've always felt badly that Jimmy wasn't treated with the kind of respect that I thought he deserved, ... Having known him and known how committed and determined he was as an artist and how tortured he was as a human being, and knowing the agonies of his childhood, I felt that this was a good chance to make an honorable psychological portrait of him.

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.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brian Tracy

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

Brian Tracy

Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

Brenda Ueland

You do not know what is in you - an inexhaustible fountain of ideas.

Brad Meltzer

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Jane Jacobs

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Jane Jacobs

New ideas often need old buildings.

Damon Lindelof

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Thomas B. Macaulay

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

Victoria Woodhull

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

Victoria Woodhull

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

Victor Hugo

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Susie Orbach

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

Susanna Clarke

you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.

Stephen Daldry

It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.