Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Bush

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

Julian Barnes

It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.

Keith Urban

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.

Keith Urban

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

Keith Urban

Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.

Katie Melua

The second album was like being on a completely different planet compared to when we were making the first album. ... Even though it was the same musicians, the same artist, the same studio, the same producer, - it felt like a completely different piece of a puzzle.

Mark Twain

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

Martin Filler

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

Martin Filler

The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.

Mark Mothersbaugh

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Mark McKinnon

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

Mark Mills

Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

Mark Millar

Comic artists have always been part of my social circle. I just like hanging out with artists, and I always see them at conventions or a store signing or something. "Hey, we should do something together."

Mark Millar

I'm so used to artists saying to me, "Listen, I'm going to have five pages done next week," and then three weeks later I'm phoning them, begging them for two pages. And Stuart [Immonen]is a guy who will promise you five pages and deliver six pages, and the six pages are even better than you could have ever imagined.

Mario Vargas Llosa

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

Marilyn Monroe

I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.

Marilyn Monroe

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Marilyn Monroe

I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Nikki Grimes

I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

Nikki Sixx

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

Nikki Sixx

The industry is a menace to artists.

Nikki Sixx

What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don't care how many lines I have on my face - I'll keep doing it!

Nicki Minaj

I understand that artists and critics make a big deal over the Grammys. But when I go to my shows and I'm selling out arenas in London, and when I'm in Australia and Japan, there aren't any Grammys there. There are human beings who I've touched. There are human beings who are inspired by me, who I love dearly. And that's what my career is based on.

Nicki Minaj

My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?'

Nick Rhodes

The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.

Nick Offerman

Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.

Nick Offerman

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.

Matt Bomer

Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

Naomi Klein

Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material,.

Leonard Shlain

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

Paul Robeson

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

Pablo Picasso

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

Paul McDonald

I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?