Sm Artists Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

Tinie Tempah

#3. I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

Chris Colfer

#4. Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say 'star struck' as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.

Mark Hoppus

#5. Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.

Sherwood Anderson

#6. When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Joni Mitchell

#7. The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

Walter Darby Bannard

#8. Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Julia Cameron

#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. Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much that he gets 5 Grammy nominees, and he's clearly an underground artist.

Steve Aoki

#11. Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

David Rockefeller

#12. It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.

David Galenson

#13. Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

Bruce Dickinson

#14. If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

Phil Ramone

#15. I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never thought of that, but that works,"...I think that true art is a universal reflection, and true artists are just messengers of that reflection or, at best, skilled presentors.

Serj Tankian

#16. Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

#17. Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.

Sonny Rollins

#18. I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.

Margaret Cho

#19. 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

#20. I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.

Kaskade

#21. The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so it's really graphic and visual. And the French were something else.

Michel Hazanavicius

#22. There is a great promise for our cultural growth, but this promise is achieved only when our artists recognize that all great art has nationality, an imprimatur achieved with the keenest remembrance of time and place.

F. Sionil Jose

#23. Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids to be academics, professors. Academics want their kids to be artists. And artists don't care if their kids are laborers or not. They can be anything.

Demetri Martin

#24. I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things by young artists who don't have any money because I need to give them some money! Because I think that they should carry on whether I like it or not.

Ryan Gander

#25. Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

Ned Rorem

#26. Maybe the artist becomes the marshal. It'd probably be a very different kind of society with artists in control.

Joelle Carter

#27. I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it.

Julie Delpy

#28. Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life ...

Robert Henri

#29. I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"

Gina Carano

#30. People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money.

Christopher Bram

#31. I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.

John Varvatos

#32. I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.

Lawrence Lessig

#33. 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

#34. With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.

Kate Christensen

#35. But our world at the end of the twentieth century has so much destruction without Christian artists so emphasizing the minor theme in the total body of their work that they add to the poorness and destruction of our generation.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#36. Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

Queen Victoria

#37. Before I was through my teens, I had been introduced and exposed to artists who would, in later years, become legendary.

Jacques D'Amboise

#38. I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.

Donald Sinden

#39. I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

David Byrne

#40. I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

Patrick Carney

#41. But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#42. I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try and push the boundaries, and there doesn't seem so much of that, really.

Paul Weller

#43. There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality ... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

Adam Lambert

#44. Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

Twyla Tharp

#45. Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends ... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.

Adam Kluger

#46. Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#47. Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.

Antonin Kratochvil

#48. Nothing would keep him from loving her. She was everything he wanted. She was his.

Lisa Carlisle

#49. My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

Johnny Ramone

#50. The poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people that know the truth about us. Soldiers don't, statesmen don't, priests don't, union leaders don't ... only the poets.

James Baldwin

#51. Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.

James Gray

#52. There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

Paolo Sorrentino

#53. Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Don Yaeger

#54. How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?

John Kurtz

#55. We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.

Kim Young-ha

#56. There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the [actors] who made that go away.

David Rasche

#57. There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

Sam Tsui

#58. I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

Robert Barry

#59. I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.

Brian Austin Green

#60. Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Virginia Woolf

#61. Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.

Benjamin Booker

#62. Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

Andrew Wyeth

#63. All artists are crazy.

Kapil Dev

#64. When one would ask most modern artists, poets, writers and other status quo fueled semi-intellectuals who Machiavelli was - was that an opera singer?

Martijn Benders

#65. I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#66. I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle ... In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.

Henry Moore

#67. I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

Chico Hamilton

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.

Kanye West

#71. Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.

Pharrell Williams

#72. A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.

Dave Grohl

#73. I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

Trey Songz

#74. A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#75. Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

Eric Maisel

#76. Artists are always young.

Margaret Fuller

#77. I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do. If you're starting to work in tech, talk to the artists, talk to the lawyers, talk to the people who are interested in other things.

Beth Simone Noveck

#78. Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

Alexander Theroux

#79. My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.

Marcel Dzama

#80. When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They were there before the show, during and after. It's been great. I never would have done it any other way. I wasn't gonna miss raising my kids. There was no way that was gonna happen.

Gloria Estefan

#81. My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

Tess Henley

#82. I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.

Lisa Marie Presley

#83. It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.

Frankie J. Grande

#84. In the UK and the US especially you've got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their show. There's many artists who would not do a live show because they know they can't.

Jamelia

#85. Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

Sonny Rollins

#86. I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

Shirley Manson

#87. We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

Sidney Sheldon

#88. My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really like it.

Kim Dotcom

#89. In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

Julia Cameron

#90. Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Julia Cameron

#91. I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.

Daryl Wein

#92. Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors ... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids ... mixed together with powdered stones to give color ... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal.

James Elkins

#93. Many artists who sign deals in the US and UK get the benefit of worldwide promotion and have a better shot at breaking globally.

Wendy Starland

#94. So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

Stan Lee

#95. Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.

Marty Rubin

#96. I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Brian Eno

#97. I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

Wes Borland

#98. I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#99. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

Edward Ruscha

#100. Choose only one master - Nature.

Rembrandt