Quotes of: Artiste Keyword

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.

Purple Moon

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

The Piano Teacher

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

Twenty Prose Poems

It’s very hard to whisper in your own ear. Love is an art, but as an artist, I guess I’m no Van Gogh.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

V for Vendetta

I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.

The White Paper

What simple and ordinary lives we live, underneath the shadows of projection screen artists

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

In elementary school, in my lunchbox, I used to pack a saxophone. I could have been a chef, a culinary artist, and all that jazz.

Xazaqazax

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

Amanda Palmer

I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.

Brittany Murphy

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Kendrick Lamar

At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.

Mark Millar

My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.

P. J. Harvey

I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.

Ryan Tedder

As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that's nice, we're also human beings.

Sasha Grey

She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.

Hourglass Museum

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

Maria Callas