National Artist Quotes

#1. It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you pitch to the national artist, I just don't write that way.

Emily Robison

#2. Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

A.E. Samaan

#3. The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

Andre Leon Talley

#4. I actually feel that women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain. Consider all the people who really struggle and don't have the financial means, don't have the support, and many people are single raising children. That's hard.

Angelina Jolie

#5. I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Mystikal

#6. The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

Richard Dawkins

#7. I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

Dana Spiotta

#8. I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth.

Patricia Churchland

#9. Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.

Guy Garvey

#10. You're very good. Are you a professional artist?"
"I dabble," she said.
Shadow had spent enough time talking to the English to know that this meant either that she dabbled, or that her work was regularly hung in the National gallery or the Tate Modern.

Neil Gaiman

#11. Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life's journey and with Elemental's Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before.

Luther E. Vann

#12. Tonight I've been dealing with a known killer, a male whore, a scam artist and now I've graduated to talking to a mayor. Who's next? The President of the National Association of Rodents?

V. Alexander

#13. It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Joseph Glanvill

#14. If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work.

Kim Weston

#15. I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

August Strindberg

#16. This is the second Old Master I have encountered that has the signatures of another artist forged over it. A painting that has been created by another artist entirely. It's like they played mix and match.

Dayna S. Rubin

#17. The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

Theodore Roosevelt

#18. You could have an eight-inch thick titanium diaper bolted to your pelvis, and you would still somehow get laid. It should be their official tourism slogan: Israel Where Virginity Goes to Die.

Jesse Andrews

#19. I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.

Pablo Casals

#20. Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.

James Jackson Jarves

#21. Cease to be a drudge. Seek to be an artist.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#22. To all that's afraid and who keep onworrying that the world is going to end today ... Enjoy your day and your life. We're all going to be here for a while longer!

Timothy Pina

#23. Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

Roddy Woomble

#24. In the bush, trust no one you don't know.

Alex Haley

#25. I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

Jerry Pinkney

#26. We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

Daniel Kahneman