Oscar Wilde Quotes
The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...Oscar Wilde
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Jack Prelutsky -
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
Federico Fellini -
I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
Gary Hume
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy -
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
Van Cliburn -
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
iO Tillett Wright -
When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
Kate Brown -
I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
Gary Hume -
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Ed Wood
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
Aaron Johnson -
Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
Ralph Waite -
My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
G. Willow Wilson -
We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
Barry Corbin -
We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
Nandan Nilekani -
Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
Yaya Han
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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
Adam McKay -
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Carson McCullers -
I have fallen in love more than 4 times.
Luisana Lopilato -
The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
Oscar Wilde