Top 100 Quotes About Artists
#1. I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.
Conor Oberst
#2. And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.
Lee Ann Womack
#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. We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet's survival. Compassion must be translated into action.
Natasha Mayers
#5. Sydney is full of the craziest and most talented artists of all kinds.
Keiynan Lonsdale
#6. It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
Ellie Goulding
#7. I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
Willie Nelson
#8. Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.
Marvin Sapp
#9. Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings ...
Jean-Francois Chevrier
#10. It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.
George Michael
#11. Artists are supposed to stay hungry." "That's bullshit. That's a myth invented to keep the artist down because art is powerful. You give an artist both money and power and they're dangerous.
Michael Connelly
#12. I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows.
Ed Sheeran
#13. The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.
Theaster Gates
#14. I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
Claude Monet
#15. Working with other artists and sharing your passions is great.
Leona Lewis
#16. 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
#17. I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.
Jimmy Cliff
#18. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion ... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce
render emotional
his audience, each time.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#19. On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging,
Robert Hughes
#20. But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.
Colin Wilson
#21. We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.
Cassandra Clare
#22. Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.
Charles Saatchi
#23. If you saw me without concealer, you would see that I have raccoon eyes. And I think my forehead is too small. I am not quintessentially beautiful. I am photogenic, but that's only because I have learned how to make the best of what I've got from the make-up artists I have worked with.
Shilpa Shetty
#24. I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.
Catherine Hardwicke
#25. Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.
Gloria Steinem
#26. I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant ...
William Beckett
#27. I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
Alicia Keys
#28. One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.
Robert Wilson
#29. Artists are the antennae of the race.
Ezra Pound
#30. I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.
Janet Jackson
#31. My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.
Tracey Emin
#32. Artists are ... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.
Jon Pareles
#33. If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.
Quentin Tarantino
#34. You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
Dan Hill
#35. To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#36. The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
Ricky Skaggs
#37. Great artists come and go; they are born and they die; but there is one exception who has been living for thousands of years and still continues creating new works, new beauties every year: The Autumn!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.
Diane Paulus
#39. A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
B.o.B
#40. The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.
Robert Black
#41. I've bought clothes based on record covers. Particularly from the formative music that turned me onto it in the first place when I was a kid, with the Beatles and the Small Faces. A lot of those Sixties soul artists were in really sharp sharkskin or mohair suits, and Motown artists looked amazing.
Paul Weller
#42. Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
Alison Moyet
#43. I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I'm not promoting myself.
Ben Lovett
#44. 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
#45. Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.
Sarah Kay
#46. The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.
Kelly Miller
#47. I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
Gary Wright
#48. For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
Thomas Mann
#49. There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.
Eric Liu
#50. "Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."
Edward Weston
#51. If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.
Patrick Whitesell
#52. There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.
Norman Granz
#53. I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.
Janelle Monae
#54. In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.
Brian Froud
#55. I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.
Patti LuPone
#56. I have seen the greatest artists and the most eccentric divas in music. The greater and more visionary they were, the more self-reflexive and childlike they behaved.
Christian Gansch
#57. As artists, when you have people that care about what you do, I think you should care about those people who care about what you do, and give them really cool interactive experiences to make them feel appreciated.
Zachary Levi
#59. I don't have any sympathy for the subject matter, [but] I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the rap artists, but the people who make the music over which they rap. Rap music - the music itself is incredible - but [the people that make the music] are hardly ever credited.
Stewart Copeland
#60. But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.
Tony Visconti
#61. To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.
Marianne Williamson
#62. As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.
Lady Gaga
#63. You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.
Leonard Nimoy
#64. Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.
Harold Rosenberg
#65. What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.
Marina And The Diamonds
#66. Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.
Cub Koda
#67. Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.
Jimenez Lai
#68. Artists," he said, "are people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage. But by golly, I can make this square of canvas, or this eight-and-a-half-by-eleven piece of paper, or this lump of clay, or these twelve bars of music, exactly what they ought to be!
Kurt Vonnegut
#69. I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.
Gretchen Wilson
#70. Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.
Missy Mazzoli
#71. The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art.
Nikki Sixx
#72. My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
Eva Zeisel
#73. I've always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians
Jared Leto
#74. We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.
Kim Young-ha
#75. In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.
Phil Everly
#76. Unbelievable, I said when it was done. And Brilliant and Audio crack and That one will be everyone's breakup song, and so on, because great is never good enough for the artists; they always want to know exactly what you mean and which nanosecond of the song you mean it about.
Kelley Eskridge
#77. 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
#79. I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.
Michael Longley
#80. Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.
Adrienne Bailon
#81. It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
Albert Camus
#82. Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#83. One of the main things that differentiates them [artists of 70s] from artists before is that they made albums based on the fact that they didn't care about the band as a thing in its own right. They cared about manipulating the recording and that became the album.
DJ Spooky
#84. There will always be con artists, I know that," Warren admitted. "But that doesn't mean clairvoyance isn't real.
Keith Steinbaum
#85. 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
#86. I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.
Brice Marden
#87. A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.
Steve Albini
#88. The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.
Alexander Calder
#89. I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.
Brice Marden
#90. I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.
John Hughes
#91. It is possible that the artists are sane and the world they are painting is crazy.
William Zinsser
#92. It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.
Josh Smith
#93. I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.
Jane Badler
#94. I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that.
Chris Stokes
#95. I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.
Christian Marclay
#96. Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
Linus Torvalds
#97. Artists copy the pictures of those they admire, those they aspire to, acknowledged masters whose work embodies everything they hope to achieve
Frank Wynne
#98. Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.
DJ Quik
#99. The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,
Banksy
#100. We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, bone by bone.
Alice Walker
