| Author |
Quotes |
| Barbra Streisand | I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. |
| Beck | I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere. |
| Bernadette Peters | You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? |
| Bette Midler | I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. |
| Carrie Fisher | I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. |
| Charles Baudelaire | Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. |
| Charles Horton Cooley | One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. |
| Christian Cardell Corbet | When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! |
| Cindy Sherman | I didn't have any interest in traditional art. |
| Claes Oldenburg | I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. |
| Cyril Connolly | The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. |
| Daniel Barenboim | Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. |
| Daphne Du Maurier | All autobiography is self-indulgent. |
| David Hockney | The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. |
| Dawn French | Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. |
| Diane Arbus | A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. |
| Donal Henahan | The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it. |
| Duke Of Buckingham | Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. |
| E B White | Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. |
| Edmond De Goncourt | A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. |
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