Artists Block Quotes

#1. Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.

Bat For Lashes

#2. For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

Shawn Wayans

#3. At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19 ... and it was devastating.

Katy Perry

#4. If you think while you walk, you're not really walking.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#5. We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.

Peter Block

#6. It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

Andre Breton

#7. The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.

John Mott

#8. Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

Frank Knox

#9. To get over artist's block, make shitty art.

Dave Horowitz

#10. Sometimes in life there comes a time when one has to dance with the devil

Mwangala Kamwi Joshua

#11. Europe isn't something connected by the Euro. Every little dimension of Europe is so hugely different, and I think America is different in its states as well, so I never really think of things in big blocks, in terms of other artists.

Patrick Wolf

#12. Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

Lukas Foss

#13. Some people die because the world does not deserve them. Liz Emerson on the other hand, did not deserve the world.

Amy Zhang

#14. My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

Grimes

#15. There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

Confucius

#16. We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

Eleanor Catton

#17. The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

Blaise Pascal

#18. Well I mean... I thought peace and equality was the point of the truce. Obviously equality was a bunch of crap, but there was this big 'togetherness' campaign which, while being totally dorky, was admittedly at the root a nice idea

Liz Maverick

#19. The artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

Peter Block