The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When I was in my formative years, I rejected Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, and Dean Martin. I now realise they… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
“Our great artists battle on a landscape we cannot chart, with weapons we do not comprehend, against adversaries we find unreal.” — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“Young children are developing more of an artistic orientation, and the orientation they develop is so naturally graceful and lively that many… — William Crain Copy Share Image
I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts. — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine.… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have… — Nickolas Ashford Copy Share Image
People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say,… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
“The reason Apple resonates with people is that there’s a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
With the way music is going right now, it's difficult for an r&b singer to make real music. If it's not with… — Tony Sunshine Copy Share Image
I think it is so great when artists use their voice to help other people and it is really great to be… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists. — David Galenson Copy Share Image
When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment… — Hedda Sterne Copy Share Image
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I really tried to work out hard to emulate the look and feel of the character, and did my best to represent… — Daniel Cudmore Copy Share Image
In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
