"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."

Artist, Culture

20

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."

Exlpore more Artist quotes

"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

Artist, Fans, Favorite, Friends

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Artist,

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Artist, Public

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Artist, Feeling

"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

Artist, Artists, Confusion, Intellectuals

"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."

John Zorn, American Composer

Artist, Artists

"Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing."

Paul Westerberg, American Musician

Artist, Blood, May

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Artist, Artists, Man

"I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house."

Jackie DeShannon, American Musician

Artist, Artists, First, Musicians

"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."

Tina Weymouth, American Musician

Artist, Play

Explore more quotes by Theodore Bikel

"Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?"

Knowledge

"Audiences are audiences."

Audience

"Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general."

Work

"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."

Hope

"I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing."

Beauty

"You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it."

Time

"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."

Death

"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."

Funny

"While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice."

Doubt

"After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could."

Sermons