Best artist & today Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.”

Today Artist Stars Lines Talent West Pops Justin Pop Stars Gaga Beyonce

Author:L.A. Reid

“I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'”

Needs Today Artist Hours Four Sitting Okay Sitting Down

Author:Martha Wainwright

“Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.”

Knows Age Today Artist Rich Havens Ancient Entertainers

Author:Pablo Picasso

“It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.”

Ifs Seems Today Artist Wish Serious Solitude

Book:Edgar Degas

Source: Edgar Degas

“Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.”

Writing Today Artist Results Style Example Statements Vocabulary Spectacular Obscurity Writing Style Arcane

Author:Robert Genn

“Today the influences of your society pressure you to be successful before your time. They are pulling you down. They have pulled you down, you big, sweet, magnificent, young, potential artists. They have pulled you down so far that you are on the verge of destruction. Only you don't know it because you want to be a success”

Knows Want Bigs Today Young Artist Successful Influence Sweet Destruction Pressure Being Successful Magnificent Pulling Verge

Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldn’t change because then I wouldn’t be the person that I am today. The past is the past. I just want to focus on the future, and getting better, not making the same mistakes and just becoming a better person, a better artist. Just a better everything.”

Want Persons Today Past Artist Mistake Focus Happened Becoming Get Better Better Person Same Mistakes Making The Same Mistakes Focus On The Future Becoming A Better Person

Author:Jay Park

“So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think, is really doing a lot of bad to us. I'm not sure if I'm the guy to do it right now, because I have to clean up my house too, so to speak, but we've got to start addressing this. Too many people are getting sick today.”

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Author:Tom DeLonge

“I'm so devoted to my music and becoming the best artist I can be. I don't want to devote too much time to anything else before I say I've conquered that. I just wanna become bigger and I'm never satisfied with just what I am today, I just always want to be bigger. If I was Bill Gates, I would double Bill Gates. That's the mindstate you should keep in any profession, just keep striking iron and trying to get bigger and better.”

Ifs Want Should Trying I Can Today Artist Too Much Becoming Bigger Bills Profession Satisfied Iron Gates Devoted Bigger And Better Best Artist Becoming The Best

Author:Fabolous

“I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the Negro today. We don't have a physical slavery, but an economic slavery. If these people, who were so much worse off than the people today, could conquer their slavery, we can certainly do the same thing....I am not a politician. I'm an artist, just trying to do my part to bring this thing about.”

“Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.”

States Seems Today Artist Causes Ought Celebrate Occasions August Summoning

Author:Robert Frost

“Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?”

Humans Problem Today Artist

Book:Mark Tobey, art and belief

Source: Mark Tobey, art and belief

“To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.”

Doe Today Young Desire Artist Creative Cry Poet Ideals Violent Rebellion Aesthetic Veins Creative Art Clique Creative Artists Young Artists Futurist

Author:Umberto Boccioni

“Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of passionate intensity.”

Self Today Artist Passionate Recognition Excellent Intensity Indispensable Promotion Demagoguery Self Promotion

Author:Roman Genn

“At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is "What is art today?" The most important artists of the last 20 years are Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, because the influence they have had is incredible and they've changed the world. That is art.”

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Author:Ferran Adria

“Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.”

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Author:Tennessee Williams

“I'm truly blessed to be doing what I've always wanted - CREATE. I have found a freedom that is hard to put into words. I always wondered about my projects - which artists are working on what, and which directions should I take? I don't even think of those things now. I passionately go into my studio and ask myself, what would I like to create today?”

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Author:Steve Kaufman

“A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wrong with their nose, if it's a little crooked, it's got to be straightened up.”

Ifs Kind Littles Today Artist Teeth Noses Fixed Hats Ems Jeans Crooked New Artists

Author:George Jones

“Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.”

Ifs Giving Years Two Today Artist Forget Millions Gone Five Four Couple Sells Release Five Years Copies Forget You

Author:George Jones

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