#artist

The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#beach #believe #british #could #cultural

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. ↗

— Maria Callas

#angel #artist #devil #either #i

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#artist #choices #doctor #firemen #i

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with. ↗

— Linda Evangelista

#ask #ever #every #hairdresser #help

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. ↗

— Walker Evans

#eye #feelings #joyous #photographer #reason

My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog? ↗

— Edie Falco

#afford #after #any #artists #burden

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#artist #beyond #decorative #facade #felt

It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#buy #countenance #create #cultural #cultural diversity

My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#back #be happy #became #before #being

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#architects #artists #change #fact #implement