Top 1200 Con Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.

Donald Trump is a world-class con artist. He conned all these people that signed up for Trump University. Now he's trying to do the same thing to Republican voters. He's trying to convince them that somehow he's the guy that is going to stand up to illegal immigration, but he hires illegal immigrants, that he's fighting for American workers, but he's hiring foreign workers for his hotels, that he's going to bring back jobs from China and from Mexico, but, in fact, he's creating jobs in China and Mexico, because that's where all of his suits and ties that he sells are made.

Jyoti Basu is the biggest fraud, cheat, and con man in West Bengal.

A-list stars go to Comic-Con to woo the nerd demographic.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

Comic-Con fans are so affectionate, and it's always a lovely way to start a new season.

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.

I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.

My mother is a Trekkie, and we're from San Diego, so I was going to Comic-Con when I was, like, 7 years old.

Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?

People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics.

Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned.

The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier.

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

Comic Con has become a very relevant venue for all films.

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

Give me an honest con man any day.

Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

Many a lash in the dark doth con science give the wicked.

Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.

This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

Being able to hear an artist and emulate them has been a huge part of being successful as a producer and co-writer. I think it's a problem when a producer comes in to work with an artist, and you can't hear the artist as well anymore. It's very important to me to be invisible.

Comic-Con is incredibly important to San Diego, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun at it!

I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.

I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.

Every Comic-Con, they have some sort of 'Dr. Horrible' panel. It's very cool!

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

Ideas visuales combinadas con tecnología e interpretación personal es igual a fotografía

I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time.

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

Comic-Con is overwhelming when you have such a long day of press schedules.

In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist

Comic-Con is so legendary, so a great thrill to be invited along.

I was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar. I think some of the treatment was pretty cruel.

I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

Going to Comic-Con was mind-blowing, seeing all these fans and all these people who know my name.

So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore', and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

I like to tell the artist what the song or album means to me, in detail. Then I let the artist run with it and create in an unrestrained manner. Once the artist gets back to me with a few ideas, I like to do the little changes to make it perfectly speak to the audience.

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

I like Comic-Con. It's always nice to talk to people who are fans of 'Children's Hospital.'

That's the great thing about Comic Con - people are so accepting of one another.

I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.