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Search ResultsFound 100 quotes matching your search: (limited to first 100 results.)  We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want. Author: Adam Jones
| | I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with. Author: Adrian Belew
| | Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them. Author: Afrika Bambaataa
| | Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well. Author: Ahmad Jamal
| | Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. Author: Al Hirschfeld
| | For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done. Author: Alan Jackson
| | Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. Author: Albert Pike
| | Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away? Author: Alexander Theroux
| | Great artists have no country. Author: Alfred de Musset
| | Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. Author: Alfred Rosenberg
| | Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists. Author: Alison Moyet
| | My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends. Author: Amber Tamblyn
| | I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along. Author: Andrea Martin
| | All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest. Author: Andrew Jack
| | 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. Author: Andrew Wyeth
| | Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. Author: Anish Kapoor
| | Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic. Author: Anish Kapoor
| | There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. Author: Anna Katharine Green
| | There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t. Author: Annie Lennox
| | I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude. Author: Anton Seidl
| | It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes. Author: Anton Seidl
| | To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. Author: Arnold Bennett
| | The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. Author: Arthur Erickson
| | True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. Author: Auguste Rodin
| | Competitions are for horses, not artists. Author: Bela Bartok
| | The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. Author: Benjamin Haydon
| | I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it. Author: Bootsy Collins
| | Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message. Author: Boris Kodjoe
| | I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently. Author: Boris Kodjoe
| | Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational. Author: Boris Kodjoe
| | The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists. Author: Boris Kodjoe
| | There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration. Author: Boris Vallejo
| | I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning. Author: Boz Scaggs
| | If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes. Author: Brad Dourif
| | I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about. Author: Brad Holland
| | Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. Author: Brad Holland
| | The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators. Author: Brad Holland
| | The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments. Author: Brad Holland
| | The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that. Author: Brad Paisley
| | I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company. Author: Branford Marsalis
| | I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD. Author: Brian Austin Green
| | James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally. Author: Brian Austin Green
| | Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own. Author: Brian Celio
| | I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it. Author: Brian Harvey
| | It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles. Author: Brooke Shields
| | I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill. Author: Bryan White
| | What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness. Author: Bryan White
| | But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools. Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie
| | God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists. Author: Camille Pissarro
| | The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do. Author: Carlisle Floyd
| | Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both. Author: Carroll O'Connor
| | Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. Author: Cesare Pavese
| | The best artists know what to leave out. Author: Charles de Lint
| | I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started. Author: Charley Pride
| | And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date. Author: Charlton Heston
| | I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind. Author: Chico Hamilton
| | I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone. Author: Chingy
| | Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great. Author: Chris Van Allsburg
| | I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people. Author: Christy Turlington
| | It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians. Author: Chuck Close
| | Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think. Author: Clint Black
| | I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot! Author: Colin Mochrie
| | Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists. Author: Colin R. Davis
| | I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists. Author: Craig McCracken
| | The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene. Author: Craig McCracken
| | It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists. Author: Crystal Gayle
| | Artists are like everybody else. Author: Damien Hirst
| | Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject. Author: Dave Winer
| | Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion. Author: David Crane
| | Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now. Author: David Elliott
| | Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. Author: David Hockney
| | Alan is a great guy, a terrific guy. We haven't worked together since then, and he's always working with different artists. I think he sees different dimensions he can see from different guys. Author: David Lloyd
| | I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that. Author: David Lloyd
| | I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free. Author: David Lloyd
| | Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s. Author: David Rockefeller
| | They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. Author: David Rockefeller
| | People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough. Author: David Sylvian
| | We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format. Author: Davy Jones
| | I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted. Author: Deana Carter
| | The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs. Author: Deborah Cox
| | I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc. Author: Dennis Brown
| | Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. Author: Desmond Morris
| | So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. Author: Diana Krall
| | I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that. Author: Diana Ross
| | Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today. Author: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
| | I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past. Author: Don Henley
| | The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side. Author: Don Johnson
| | I don't think artists are made, I think they're born. Author: Don Van Vliet
| | Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists. Author: Donal Henahan
| | Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant. Author: Donald Judd
| | You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves. Author: Donald Judd
| | I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. Author: Douglas Sirk
| | Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists. Author: Duncan Sheik
| | The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process. Author: Eddy Grant
| | There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony. Author: Eddy Grant
| | Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home. Author: Edvard Grieg
| | Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave. Author: Edwin Starr
| | I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures? Author: Egon Schiele
| | And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music. Author: Elvis Costello
| | Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. Author: Erica Jong
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Found 100 quotes containing your search: (limited to first 100 results.) | I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists. Author: Estelle Parsons
| | It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them. Author: Etta James
| | The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. Author: Ezra Pound
| | I was working as an art and tech researcher in '84. At that time there had been a small government program of assistance for artists for at least three or four years. I was working with Super 8 film then. And video in '85 and public radio in the early '80s. Author: Francesca da Rimini
| | The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure. Author: Francois Truffaut
| | We're not cameras, we're artists. Author: Frank Bruno
| | I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful. Author: Frank Frazetta
| | Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times. Author: Franz Marc
| | As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start. Author: Garth Ennis
| | I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here. Author: Gary Lucas
| | Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies. Author: Gary Wright
| | I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands. Author: Gary Wright
| | I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them. Author: Gary Wright
| | The more far-out artists, the better. Author: Gary Wright
| | As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. Author: Gavin Bryars
| | San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. Author: Gavin Newsom
| | Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes. Author: Gedde Watanabe
| | I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens. Author: Georg Baselitz
| | Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. Author: George Henry Lewes
| | Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad. Author: George Jones
| | Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think. Author: George Martin
| | Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind. Author: Georges Rouault
| | Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. Author: Giorgio Moroder
| | I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody. Author: Glenn Frey
| | Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together. Author: Glenn Frey
| | I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it. Author: Gloria Stuart
| | Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences. Author: Gordon Waller
| | We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. Author: Gore Vidal
| | There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best. Author: Graham Coxon
| | I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants. Author: Greg Egan
| | Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
| | I hate artists who are not of their time. Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
| | Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
| | Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Author: Gustave Flaubert
| | The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time. Author: Guy Johnson
| | Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad. Author: Harry Harrison
| | I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad. Author: Harvey Pekar
| | People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them. Author: Harvey Pekar
| | In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition. Author: Helmut Jahn
| | When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. Author: Henry Flynt
| | When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway? Author: Henry Flynt
| | Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. Author: Henry Ossawa Tanner
| | I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy. Author: Henry Rollins
| | The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. Author: Herbert Read
| | A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people. Author: Hilary Rosen
| | The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal. Author: Hilary Rosen
| | Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community. Author: Hilary Rosen
| | A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word. Author: Holly Near
| | A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. Author: Honore de Balzac
| | A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy. Author: Howard Hodgkin
| | I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings. Author: Howard Hodgkin
| | I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. Author: Howard Hodgkin
| | I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs. Author: Howie Mandel
| | There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists. Author: Hugo Pratt
| | Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run. Author: Ice T
| | Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. Author: Igor Stravinsky
| | They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them. Author: Ike Turner
| | I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own statement... trying to do what they want instead of being someone else's Barbie doll. Author: Irene Cara
| | Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves. Author: Isaac Hanson
| | A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. Author: Issey Miyake
| | Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists. Author: Jack Herer
| | Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters. Author: Jack Levine
| | I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them. Author: Jack Nicholson
| | I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house. Author: Jackie DeShannon
| | New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Author: Jackson Pollock
| | I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go, 'Are you crazy? I could read my stuff forever!' Now it's a little harder. Author: Jaime Hernandez
| | In the UK and the US especially you've got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their show. There's many artists who would not do a live show because they know they can't. Author: Jamelia
| | Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. Author: James Broughton
| | I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist. Author: James Daly
| | The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. Author: James Thurber
| | Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man. Author: James Thurber
| | I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground. Author: Jane Badler
| | Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique. Author: Jane Rule
| | We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists. Author: Jason Mraz
| | As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion. Author: Jasper Johns
| | In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in. Author: Jasper Johns
| | The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. Author: Jean Cocteau
| | I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. Author: Jean Houston
| | I do greatly admire Australian artists. Author: Jeffrey Archer
| | We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum. Author: Jermaine Dupri
| | I've always gotten along best with artists. Author: Jerry Hall
| | Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them. Author: Jerry Harrison
| | The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference. Author: Jill Scott
| | I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am. Author: Jim Sullivan
| | I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists. Author: Jimmy Carl Black
| | I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing. Author: Jo Stafford
| | I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now. Author: Jody Watley
| | It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover. Author: Joe Cocker
| | Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not. Author: Joe Murray
| | Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do. Author: Joe Sacco
| | When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz. Author: Joe Simon
| | United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing? Author: John Astin
| | And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. Author: John B. S. Haldane
| | Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. Author: John Dewey
| | I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing. Author: John Dyer
| | The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week. Author: John Hall
| | All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get. Author: John Kricfalusi
| | Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained. Author: John Kricfalusi
| | From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now. Author: John Kricfalusi
| | I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose. Author: John Kricfalusi
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