Everyone loves a dead artist. It’s the living ones that people can’t tolerate.
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host.
I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.
In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.
My child has to be an artist, because conceiving her will be the best art my body has ever accommodated.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention.
You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.
In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.
I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.
There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.
Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.
