Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Schumann

The painter turns a poem into a painting; the musician sets a picture to music.

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Tyler Hilton

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

Trey Anastasio

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

Trey Parker

I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else.

Wayne Shorter

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

Virgil Thomson

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Sade Adu

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

Laura Cantrell

I never thought of being a musician as a proper career.

Rebecca Miller

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

William Blake

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

William Hazlitt

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Pierre Bonnard

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Jamie Wyeth

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Anna Jones

The only thing I think about this is that it's big. I saw a picture (in the newspaper) and I wanted to see it.

R. Robinson

His picture is up everywhere. His presence is everywhere.

Courtney Green

It is a little nerve-racking when you start to think about the big picture of it. You want it to be perfect.

Harry Conover

We then get a better picture of the situation and are able to look at what we have written in our plan.

Robert Blake

I think we actually went out to see Rosie. I think Bonny even took some pictures and we said we were settling in.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Jody Gerut

If you picture .500 as the pinnacle of the season, ... you're not thinking much of yourself.

F. Stone

In this picture here there's a road map.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The first poem I ever wrote was terrible,

Roger McGuinn

Once in a while and really the exception, will be when I have an idea, then I'll write a poem first and then write a tune to the poem.

John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

James Welch

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Mary Tavenner

We don't compare. It's not my poem is better than yours. We're like a chorus. Some sing alto, some sing baritone, some sing bass.

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Marcos Baghdatis

The first two sets I was really stressed out, I didn't know what to do.

Shana Martin

I want to be the person who sets the curve.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Ryan Reynolds

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him.

Peter Plagens

I like touch. I like to make twists and turns -- but I don't want (my paintings) to be too elegant.

Chuck Viane

Immediately after Halloween, whatever it is, people's mind-set turns to movies,

Charlotte Evans

It's doing very well. But, it's the first year, and we'll just have to wait and see how everything turns out.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Nikki Sixx

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

Nicole Polizzi

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand