Quotes with artists

Quotes 61 till 80 of 90.

  • Alan Cohen The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bono The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Marcel Duchamp The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Brad Holland The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Erickson The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Cyril Connolly The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • 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.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • 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.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Alfred Jarry The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Bonnie McKee There are some artists that don't like working with other females, which is fine. They have their own thing. I personally love being surrounded by other females.
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  • Bob Ross There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Anna Katharine Green 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.
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  • Betty Wright There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Boris Vallejo 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.
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  • Ben Lovett There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals - and critics of the Women's Movement.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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