Quotes of: Female-artists Keyword

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

Oryx and Crake

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

Last Words from Montmartre

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

The Underpainter

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

Viola in Reel Life

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished.

Women & Beauty

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

One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it is a situation of steel sharpening steel.

Common

One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.

Dave Gibbons

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Emil Nolde

What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate objec...

Henry Selick

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

Javier Bardem

One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is that you could bring all the best talents in the world together and produce a big turkey.

Kevin Spacey

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

Lafcadio Hearn

Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say 'star struck' as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.

Mark Hoppus

You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.

Marjane Satrapi

I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.

Sean Combs

Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

Simon Cowell

For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that something you've created and put out there in the world has had some sort of impact on other people's lives.

Sarah McLachlan