Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denise Levertov

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.

Mary Cassatt

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

Stephen Sondheim

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

Sinead O'Connor

I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed.

Vincent Van Gogh

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

Robert Crumb

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

Edmund Wilson

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations -- like that of artistic imagination.

Edward Carey

Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.

Eric Whitacre

The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.

Eric Kandel

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

Guy Laliberte

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

Brian Molko

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Jean Brown

We used to live right nearby and it used to interfere with the TV as soon as they switched it on. They could see into Red Square in Moscow.

Li Hongzhi

What I am doing is teaching people to be kind and benevolent, ... It is not politically motivated. I have never interfered with state laws and decrees, nor have I been involved in politics.

Vladimir Putin

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

Michael O'Donoghue

I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge.

Bob Boughner

He interfered with me, but I did give it a little extra. I won't be winning an Oscar, put it that way.

Tim Stewart

Wireless, in my opinion, was not reliable; it could be interfered with by anything.

Ray Tanner

Did he interfere with Widmann? No, but the rule says you have to go straight in and he didn't go straight in.

Margrethe II of Denmark

None of my counterparts in Europe interferes in politics.

Jalal Talabani

Iraq is a sovereign independent nation that won?t let other nations interfere in its internal affairs.