Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Hardwicke

Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist?

Chance The Rapper

When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. Chief Keef did it; Kids These Days did it; Cool Kids did it. And I'm the next Cool-Kids-Chief, if you will.

Catherine Opie

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

CeeLo Green

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

CeeLo Green

Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.

Damien Hirst

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.

Damien Hirst

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

Damien Hirst

For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

I always wanted to be an actor, so part of me is split between the artistic side and the physical side, but then physically I was just born as quite a healthy specimen!

I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of.

Daniel Clowes

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

Daria Werbowy

There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat.

David Amram

The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.

Dave Gahan

I think there's a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do when you're an artist in any way, shape or form.

Dave Gibbons

I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old. I used to get British comics and I clearly remember seeing my first American comic: an issue of 'Action Comics', with Superman on the cover with a treasure horde in a cave, and Lois saying something like 'I don't believe Superman is a miser!'

Bess Myerson

Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

Bernard Baruch

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Bette Midler

Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

Louie Anderson

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

Louie Anderson

Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.

Lisa See

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

Kesha

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

Kid Cudi

The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are used to that and they don't want change, they don't like change. And I get that, that's cool. Luckily for me, I'm confident in myself as an artist where I can do what I want, and as long as I'm cool with it, I'm cool with it.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

Gustave Flaubert

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Gunter Grass

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

Ben Okri

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Ben Jonson

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

Peter Thiel

There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.

Orhan Pamuk

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.