Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tiesto

I love L.A., but I don't live there. I spent some time there when I was recording 'Kaleidoscope,' mainly working with some of the artists I collaborated with. The city and people in L.A. have a great vibe and the weather is always beautiful.

The (instruments) are very, very attractive. The artists had very clever ideas.

Herbie Hancock

The fact that young hip-hop artists are searching for the jazz roots of their music acknowledges the greatness of roots, helps a person get a sense of being grounded, of being attached, of coming from somewhere.

Joshua Bell

I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things.

I'm going to live my dream and live my life to the fullest. I can't wait to find some great artists locally.

Teri Hatcher

I'm glad you could join me tonight to celebrate the efforts of this community of artists and volunteers. I like to think we're all here because we believe in the value of art in our lives, and especially in our children's lives.

The first draft reveals the art, revision reveals the artist

The con artists have discovered the Internet, ... Digital Jam.

Nate Parker

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

Milan Kundera

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

Mike Leigh

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

Mike Leigh

You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.

Marcel Proust

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

Kevin Smith

Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.

Jackson Pollock

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

The idea was to get a number of artists from different regions and cultural backgrounds together in the Top End. We wanted to make it a women's project because of indigenous women's association with plants.

Jacques Lipchitz

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

Helen Frankenthaler

Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all for three months, and it was agonizing. I looked at reproductions. I stared at Matisse. I stared at the Old Masters. I stared at the Quattrocento. And I thought to myself - Don't push it! If you try too hard to get at something, you almost push it away.

Hedda Sterne

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

Man Ray

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !

Malcolm Muggeridge

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.

James Schuyler

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate

James Rosenquist

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

James Purnell

It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to highlight the need for action on poverty in Africa, and for which so many artists and others are donating their valuable time for nothing [on people selling Live8 concert tickets on eBay]

Laura Dern

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

Laura Dern

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

Artists deserve to make a living

Larry Gagosian

When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I have no idea. Let's face it, I'm probably going to recommend artists that I represent.

Larry Gagosian

Working with younger artists kind of tests your judgment. You're not always right, but when you are, it's exciting.

Larry Gagosian

Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.

Kurt Sutter

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

Gary Clark, Jr.

I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.