Artists Love Quotes

#1. Words matter. Artists love to trot out the tired line, "My work speaks for itself," but the truth is, our work doesn't speak for itself.

Austin Kleon

#2. Artists love without reservation. They give their hearts completely and leave nothing on the table. They are naked and unashamed. They leave no room for pretension. And because they have given all of themselves, they live without regret.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#3. We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

John Banville

#4. Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

Rollo May

#5. When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show.

Luke Bryan

#6. I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.

Hoodie Allen

#7. There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

Rico Love

#8. The world is chaotic. All artists know this, but they try to make sense of it. Sophia has made sense of it for him. She has stitched it together like the most beautiful cloak. Her love has sewn it together and they can wrap it around themselves and be safe from the world. Nobody can reach them.

Deborah Moggach

#9. I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you.

K.d. Lang

#10. There are some artists that don't like working with other females, which is fine. They have their own thing. I personally love being surrounded by other females.

Bonnie McKee

#11. Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

Bill Hicks

#12. When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you're trying to do. And I've seen artists get caught up in that.

Kendrick Lamar

#13. People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love.

Cheryl Strayed

#14. By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).

Brenda Ueland

#15. All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

Chuck Berry

#16. Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists ... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.

Matthew Lillard

#17. I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.

Rico Love

#18. I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.

L.A. Reid

#19. I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything.

Martin Garrix

#20. I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

Juno Temple

#21. When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

Curtis Jackson

#22. I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a Feeling.' After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I'm happy to do it out on stage.

Tom Scholz

#23. There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.

David Hallberg

#24. I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

David Byrne

#25. I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

Alanis Morissette

#26. There aren't that many songs that pay homage to the DJ. They are the ones getting artists' music out there. They are the ones getting the club popping. But no one's giving them any love.

Tila Tequila

#27. That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#28. I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers.

Perez Hilton

#29. I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

Pink

#30. There is my love ... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

Joseph Plaskett

#31. There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've always wished that I could combine that.

Agnetha Faltskog

#32. To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.

Justin Chon

#33. Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

Daya

#34. I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

Ronnie Spector

#35. I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.

Dan Bucatinsky

#36. Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.

Kevin Smith

#37. This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists ... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

Meg Cabot

#38. I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.

Jamie Wyeth

#39. I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage ... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

M. Ward

#40. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.

Jerry Saltz

#41. As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.

Sara Genn

#42. I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.

Mark Hoppus

#43. I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

Johnny Marr

#44. I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one

Jessica Lange

#45. I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

Joe Jonas

#46. The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

Q-Tip

#47. I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!

Jamie Foxx

#48. The white lily stands for purity. Artists for centuries have pictured the angel Gabriel coming to the virgin Mary with a spray of lillies in his hand, to announce that she is to be the mother of the Turks.

Carroll Bryant

#49. Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning - We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.

Joy Harjo

#50. Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I don't need to prove anything in my life. I can honestly say I love fashion and I can be many things at the same time.

Marina Abramovic

#51. I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb!

MC Lars

#52. Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#53. As artists, we'd all love to not be commercial - to not sell out to the full extent that we are able. But you do what you have to do to pay New York rent and continue to do what you feel strongly about.

Mike Birbiglia

#54. On most guys, Hale's smile would have looked sheepish. On him, it was so roguishly charming that Kat's heart actually skipped a beat.

Ally Carter

#55. There is no difference between being an artist and being in love.

Marty Rubin

#56. I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.

Steven Pressfield

#57. As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.

Suzi Quatro

#58. I'm a firm believer in that there are MCs and there are artists. I love' em both.

Kurupt

#59. I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.

Thomas Kinkade

#60. We will make love an art and we will love like artists.

Marianne Williamson

#61. I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.

Christopher Moore

#62. A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ...

Alice Walker

#63. A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.

Betty Parsons

#64. They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.

Nikki Sixx

#65. Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

George E.P. Box

#66. I've been touring for 25 years. I'm used to it, so I love it. Although I feel the tug of home, as I have three little kids, I don't suffer like some artists who constantly complain about how much they hate traveling.

Joshua Bell

#67. You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.

ASAP Rocky

#68. Ace would be the first to turn the words into a joke, one about how artists fell in love every day before noon and got their hearts broken by dinner.

Kit Rocha

#69. Even though I'm out there as an artist, I continue droppin' mixtapes, I continue doin' this and continue showin' DJs love personally. That's why I continue doin' a lot of things other artists don't do.

Ace Hood

#70. Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#71. People love music, they're always going to love music, it's our job to consistently push ourselves as artists to keep delivering stuff for people to stay engaged with.

Amos Lee

#72. It has been a pleasure to play with all these artists. Pretenders was a real highlight, but also Damon, aka Badly Drawn Boy, Sinead ... Ian Brown ... all of these people I learn from and love to work with.

Andy Rourke

#73. New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to.

Justin Townes Earle

#74. The space that I can call mine, that isn't full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become small.

Audrey Niffenegger

#75. Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe (the real Tom Wolfe, I mean) and Steinbeck. In other words, he writes out of a concern for justice, love, honesty, and hope.

Edward Abbey

#76. I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

Guy Berryman

#77. Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

Rachel Kushner

#78. I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

Vincent Van Gogh

#79. Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

Leo Fitzpatrick

#80. If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest ... she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

Ned Rorem

#81. Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him.

Henry Miller

#82. 'Modern Love' completes the EP as an intricate musical piece weaving in and out of complex rhythms. There is even a beatless ambient mix that shows Subb-an has more strings to his bow. We are always keen to push artists out of their comfort zone and really show the world what they are capable of.

Subb-an

#83. The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

Bruce Springsteen

#84. I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

Jerry Saltz

#85. I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

Hayao Miyazaki

#86. I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

Laura Dern

#87. Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#88. Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

John Lasseter

#89. I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

Jessica Sanchez

#90. I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

Elizabeth Hand

#91. A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

Sylvester Stallone

#92. I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

Natalie Cole

#93. Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

Nile Rodgers

#94. I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorite artists. My favorite song is 'Red House,' because it's heavy on the blues.

Marisa Miller

#95. I think all the poets and artists
have always written for peace and love,
and it hasn't changed much
in the last two or three thousand years.
But we hope.

Maximilian Schell

#96. You never needed wings to fly,
You only needed love.

Jenim Dibie

#97. When I feel too much and the universe aches inside of me.

Christina Strigas

#98. There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those same artists,

Annaleigh Ashford

#99. The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

Akon

#100. A lot of people just love music, especially a lot of aspiring artists. They just want to jump in and start making music. They don't really take time to grow and appreciate the craft.

LeCrae