"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."

Artist, Names, Obsession

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"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."

Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity

Artist, Artists, Devotion, Fact, 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

"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

Madeleine Peyroux, American Musician

Artist, Artists, Confidence, Nothing, Talk

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

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

Vladimir Kramnik, Russian Celebrity

Artist, Chess, Language

"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."

Mike Wilson, American Journalist

Artist, Artists, Boys, Fact

"I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."

Don Henley, American Musician

Artist, Artists, Eagles, Mind, Past

"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."

Mia Kirshner, Canadian Actress

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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."

Norman Granz, American Musician

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"Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?"

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"I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'"

Will

"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."

Privacy

"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice."

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"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."

Class

"What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other."

People

"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."

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

"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."

"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."

"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

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

"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."

"I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."

"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."

"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."

Explore more quotes by Barbra Streisand

"Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?"

"I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'"

"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."

"Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?"

"I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."

"Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression."

"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice."

"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."

"What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other."

"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."