Quotes tagged ‘Artist’

“This Ron Howard documentary doesn’t ignore the Muppet mastermind’s faults, but the tribute has a lot to teach creators everywhere.”

— Alissa Wilkinson, nytimes.com

“We artists got to stick together.”

— Liz Tigelaar, Mia Warren, Kerry Washington, imdb.com

“And of course the swastikas that were on the latest newsletter were supposed to have been octopuses. I am a very bad artist, and I apologize to any student I may have offended.”

— Michael Patrick O'Brien, Rob Klein, Principal Durbin, Patton Oswalt, imdb.com

“You need support in order to be an artist.”

— Deborah Czeresko, imdb.com

“When an artist is given a blank page, doubt about creativity sets in.”

— Deborah Czeresko, imdb.com

“My core goal as an artist is to deconstruct the idea of working, of effort because we are raised to believe that great works of art require suffering.”

— Seth Meyers, Dimo, Fred Armisen, imdb.com

“It’s very hard if you’re an artist and a creative person and a woman, a strong independent female, to be in a marriage with a man who isn’t threatened by that and is comfortable with all the things that I stand for and what I do.”

— Madonna, amazon.com

“You've been my comrade, my fellow artist, and my best friend, but you've never been my husband.”

— Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas, Frida Kahlo, Salma Hayek, imdb.com

“If making something of myself means losing myself, then what am I making?”

— Nelson George, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“If you wanna be a true DJ, conquer your street. Conquer your park. Conquer your neighborhood, conquer your borough. Conquer your city. And the world is yours. So, battle.”

— Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Grandmaster Flash, Mamoudou Athie, imdb.com

“I wanted to make people feel really good when they listen to this. The thing that my friends say when they listen to this album is, 'This feels like the girl we hang out with.' When they listen they're like, 'This is our friend.'”

— Ariana Grande, papermag.com

“When you are a little kid, you are a bit of everything—artist, scientist, athlete, scholar. Sometimes, it seems life is like a process of giving those things up, one by one. I guess we all have one thing we regret giving up. One thing we really miss. And we gave up because we were too lazy. We could…”

— Todd W. Langen, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com

“Dr. Camille Saroyan: For an artist, you make a pretty good detective. Angela Montenegro: I think you just insulted me.”

— Carla Kettner, Camille Saroyan, Tamara Taylor, imdb.com

“If I don't create something at least once a day I'll go mad.”

— Brandon Woelfel, twitter.com

“How can you grow as an artist, if you don’t have the freedom to fail now and then?”

— Jill Soloway, Russell Corwin, Ben Foster, imdb.com

“We need to be able to be in situations where you can be irresponsible. That’s one of the great privileges of an artist. An artist should be irresponsible in a way — a 3-year-old.”

— Kanye West, wral.com

“A musician must make music. An artist must paint. A poet must write. If he is to be ultimately at peace with himself, what a man can be, he must be.”

— Abraham Maslow, amazon.com

“A lesson to learn is to protect your dignity and self-worth as a creator. A lot of people want to buy it, and some may offer a high price tag, but once it’s gone, you can’t get it back.”

— Sam Sykes, twitter.com

“In the case of a work which is a mere exhibition of skill in conventional art, there may be some excuse for the delusion that the longer the artist works on it the nearer he will bring it to perfection. Yet even the victims of this delusion must see that there is an age limit to the process, and tha…”

— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org

“You’ve got to write again. Just as daisies bloom as daisies and roses bloom as roses—you must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com