Artistic Accomplishment Quotes

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

Two of my dramas, 'Unforgotten' and 'River,' were airing at the same time, and Dad had read about my 'success' in a newspaper - he thought it was brilliant. I was thinking, 'Does this mean I'm going to be put in a box for a bit now?'

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

The American dream is Chance the Rapper, or 'little Chano from 79th' who hails from Chicago's Southside and became the first artist to win a Grammy without selling one physical copy of his album.

I want to see where and how far I can go as an artist. I look back and see what I've done, and I want to do as much as I can in my lifetime. I love doing it. If I didn't have that passion or love for it, I wouldn't do it.

I've always been an elite artist.

'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.

Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the tablets of stone.

I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.

I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.

There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.

It has been an honor to paint on stage and have my art grace the albums and stage sets of renowned musicians.

I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

I feel like I've established myself as a music maker in my own right.

I'm artistically satisfied and happy.

'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else.

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.

I am damn happy for Huma. I think 'Kaala' will be a game changer for her, it is one of the nicest script.