Artist Quotes - Page 306

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

What you do, you don't think of as a product

When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine

You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.

There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking.

Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence of artistic expression is invention and artists necessarily draw on their own experience. But if the rules of liability are unclear, artists will not be able to know how much disguise is sufficient to protect their claims from the claims of those who may see themselves in the portrayals.

The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it.

I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.

Get it out of your historic head.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

Don't believe Wikipedia, not everything written there is true. The Soviet Artists Union was not a communist party organization. It was a professional union, which did not protect you from the government if the government decided you were the enemy, but it did give you the possibility to work in your profession and survive.