All Quotes

Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.
‐‐ Sondra Radvanovsky

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
‐‐ Ron Silver

Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.
‐‐ Tinie Tempah

Artists talk in 'art speak.'
‐‐ Damian Loeb

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
‐‐ Sol LeWitt

Artists that are perfectionists? We find it hard sometimes to be happy a lot.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.
‐‐ Courtney Barnett

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
‐‐ Andrew Wyeth

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

Artists walk alone.
‐‐ Ezra Miller

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.
‐‐ Hedda Sterne

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
‐‐ Gary Wright

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.
‐‐ Michelle Grabner

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.
‐‐ Terri Clark

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.
‐‐ Steven Pressfield

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.
‐‐ David Rakoff

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
‐‐ Heather Watts

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Artwise, I'm kind of a chameleon. I don't have an established style or anything like that.
‐‐ Jonathan Hickman

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.
‐‐ Agnes Martin

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.
‐‐ Michael Heizer

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
‐‐ Alex Kapranos

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.
‐‐ Richard Carmona

As a 10-year veteran of the NFL, I had a unique perspective weekly to see the heartfelt commitment of the fan. Regardless of years of disappointing and winless seasons, the true fans remained die-hard in their loyalty to 'the Team.'
‐‐ Burgess Owens

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.
‐‐ Rooney Mara

As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction.
‐‐ Lester Holt

As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
‐‐ Victor LaValle

As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.
‐‐ Laura Dekker

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.
‐‐ Zoe Sugg

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
‐‐ Allen West

As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.
‐‐ Jacqueline Novogratz

As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.
‐‐ Robbie Williams

As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
‐‐ Bo Jackson

As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant, and keep your judgments to yourself.
‐‐ Jools Holland

As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well.
‐‐ Louis Theroux

As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.
‐‐ Dana Priest

As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.
‐‐ Steven Rattner

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.
‐‐ Jill Abramson

As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on.
‐‐ Jean Fritz

As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is America after all; you have to play ball if you're going to play ball.
‐‐ Dorian Missick

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.
‐‐ Sophie Okonedo

As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
‐‐ Naturi Naughton

As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.
‐‐ Kelis