Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Klee

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Patrick Stump

I very often think about doing things that I would want other artists to do. Like, if I'm a fan of whoever, I want to be treated a certain way. So I realized it came off almost elitist to ignore the whole world of Twitter and Facebook.

Patrick Stump

I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.

Patrick Carney

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

Paola Antonelli

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

Paramahansa Yogananda

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

Paul McCartney

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

Paul McCartney

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

Pauley Perrette

There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.

Pauline Kael

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

Pauline Kael

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

Pauline Kael

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Katharine Hepburn

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

Karen O

Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul. Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self possessed. Was this recorded this century? Or out of a basement that's she's been imprisoned all her life? Time to set her loose on the world. I'm so happy she exists. Set me free Mary!

Karen Kain

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

Karen Kain

To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated — that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.

Judy Chicago

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

George Jones

A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wrong with their nose, if it's a little crooked, it's got to be straightened up.

Emily Robison

Constant contact is what people require these days. Its tough on artists.

Ellie Goulding

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

Ellie Goulding

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

Jimmy Fallon

Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama's 'Hope' poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It's pretty serious. Detroit officials say the artist's spray paint caused over $9,000 worth of improvements.

John Byrne

One of the things that kept most comics from being monthly was that very few artists could produce 24 pages per month. Jack Kirby was very much the exception to the rule, but his towering presence at Marvel started to dictate the whole shape of the industry—and that's where problems set in!

Joelle Carter

Maybe the artist becomes the marshal. It'd probably be a very different kind of society with artists in control.

Jimmy Page

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

Jimmy Page

Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.

Lola Kirke

I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

LL Cool J

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

Madeleine L'Engle

We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

Madeleine L'Engle

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

Madeleine L'Engle

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

Madeleine L'Engle

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.