Quotes of: Good-artists Keyword

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

Ike Turner

I like an occasional glass of wine, though I don't drink before a shoot or a show - blotchy skin is not a good idea, however good your make-up artist.

Jourdan Dunn

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think...

Lifeviews: Make a Christian Impact on Culture and Society

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

Ariel Rechtshaid

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your l...

Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Alexander Calder

A good artist has less time than ideas.

Martin Kippenberger

The Christian Church has put a spiritual hierarchy on jobs. Ministers and missionaries are on top, then perhaps doctors and nurses come next, and so on to the bottom, where artists appear. Artists of whatever kind have to compromise everything to ent...

Steve Taylor

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, th...

Joe Nichols

I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I think that there's honor in being a good artist, and there's honor in being a good 'craftsperson.'

David Henry Hwang

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

David Hockney

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

Patti Smith

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

Ayad Akhtar

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

Harry Harrison

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

Rachel Stevens

every good artist paints what he is

Jackson Pollock

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters

The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it, the good, the bad, the ugly, the uglier, the privat and even more private and it's a book worth reading. Not willing to go there? Do yourse...

I'm Not Crazy Just Bipolar

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

Ellie Goulding