Top 100 Artists Who Quotes
#1. I think with certain artists you want to hear their album ... and then there are other artists who I like where maybe it's more about the single. I don't think there is going to be one way that everything works.
Rick Rubin
#2. Artists who write songs ... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.
Terri Clark
#3. I'm one of those artists who have the presence and that swag ... I was always built for the music, I don't get on cameras and pop sh*t and base it on a whole lot of hype and talk, I was built off my music ...
Juelz Santana
#4. I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.
Margot Fonteyn
#5. Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?
Jerry Saltz
#6. I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it.
Ian Astbury
#7. There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.
Beck
#8. It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.
Keith Urban
#9. My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
Shia Labeouf
#10. A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
Laurie Anderson
#11. It was the artists who finally gave their times and places significance. Paul felt the presence of their ghosts out in the world, just as felt them in his office and in his head. The air was full of them. They were everywhere and always would be.
Jonathan Galassi
#12. Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
Gianni Versace
#13. Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
Jerry Saltz
#14. Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.
Scott Kahn
#15. I love a lot of the young, new artists who are coming up, including Adele. I suppose anybody would freak out to work with her. To be able to play a saxophone solo on one of her songs would be the most ultimate thing ever.
Dave Koz
#16. I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.
Andres Segovia
#17. I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.
Ansel Elgort
#18. There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
Natalie Imbruglia
#19. I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
Tamara Feldman
#20. I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.
Moby
#21. I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.
Graham Elliot
#22. I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.
Jimmy Cliff
#23. There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
Vanessa Paradis
#24. The artist's task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
Terence McKenna
#25. You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don't know if I want to be that guy.
Drake
#26. There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.
Andrei Codrescu
#27. When I go into rehearsal rooms and meet with bands, they're genuinely excited to be with me because of what I've done as an artist, not because of anything else. There's that whole celebrity rock star thing, and artists are into artists who have been able to achieve success their way.
Nikki Sixx
#28. I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.
Stephen Fry
#29. Actually, I know for a fact there are some young female artists who don't even sing on their own records and who don't sing live. And that is pathetic.
Avril Lavigne
#30. There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.
Neil Gaiman
#31. I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#32. I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
Talib Kweli
#33. When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.
Ryan Lewis
#34. For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#35. We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.
Robertson Davies
#36. In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#37. I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perry to Lana Del Rey. I don't know if it's because I'm versatile or because production affects how people judge music. I can't wait for a time I can just be classed as myself.
Marina And The Diamonds
#38. I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.
Ben Lerner
#39. My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.
Louis Riel
#40. When I was young, anywhere I would go in Germany, I would see my father's posters. Everyone knew about him. And he had many friends who were artists who were also quite famous. So, for me, it seemed very natural to be an artist and be known.
Ruth Bernhard
#41. I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.
Pablo Picasso
#42. There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.
Chuck Close
#43. I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.
Rupert Friend
#45. I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.
Lenny Kravitz
#46. I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort of powerful, interesting people like Bella Freud or Jay Joplin or Tracey Emin. I'm part of that group of people. Brit artists who are doing things. That's what I do. Some of them happen to be aristocrats.
Duncan Roy
#47. I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.
George Brandis
#48. I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.
Paul McGann
#49. Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.
Guy Garvey
#50. There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.
John Wain
#51. So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.
Carly Simon
#52. I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
Yoko Ono
#53. I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
Brad Holland
#54. It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.
Edward Steichen
#55. Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#56. Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.
Michael Redd
#57. I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
Eddie Trunk
#58. Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#59. I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.
Jeffrey Lewis
#60. I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects.
Mark Grotjahn
#61. Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.
Charles Saatchi
#62. It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.
Erica Jong
#63. I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for making them. There are a lot of artists who, no matter how hard they work in their lives, will never make anything seminal.
Tracey Emin
#64. Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.
Paul Burch
#65. And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.
Lee Ann Womack
#66. I listen a lot to the incredible young artists who are coming through, which is something that just wasn't possible during Apartheid. That's the way I learn.
Letta Mbulu
#67. I hate working with artists who don't have something to say or when they have something that sounds cool but isn't really them.
Drumma Boy
#68. I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that.
Chris Stokes
#69. You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.
Stacie Orrico
#70. In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.
Mikhail Sholokhov
#71. I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
Egon Schiele
#72. The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
Nick Lowe
#73. Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.
Thomas King
#74. If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.
Tavi Gevinson
#75. Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.
Alex Tabarrok
#76. Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
#77. The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.
Simon Cowell
#78. The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even.
Rufus Wainwright
#79. I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.
Julian Schnabel
#80. I'm not one of those artists who doesn't want to play their most popular songs.
Tom Scholz
#81. I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000 copies, and we sold them all.
Shaquille O'Neal
#82. There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?
Dana Spiotta
#84. Our ideas of self are fed to us by corporate game artists who wear us down with their generic mantras of compliance until we identify with a socially acceptable idea of self.
Jeff Brown
#85. I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
Idina Menzel
#86. Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.
Raekwon
#87. There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
Bob Ross
#88. I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
Laurie Anderson
#89. I know some artists who come out of country music and the three sessions a day work ethic where you walk in, and you're told you play this note, this note, and this note, and you don't vary it. I know that works great for some people. It wouldn't work for me.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#90. There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.
Cornel West
#91. The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.
Aldous Huxley
#92. A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.
Roseanne Barr
#93. There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.
Kelly Price
#94. Paris is pregnant with layers of history, colored with the ink of artists who dared to dream of a world only they could see.
Kimberly Kinrade
#95. I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.
Drake
#96. I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.
Jeff Lemire
#97. People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.
Marina Abramovic
#98. There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
Paul McCartney
#99. There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.
Peter Gallagher
#100. I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.
Jim Sullivan
