Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen
Quotes to Explore
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
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I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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Our work is never over.
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Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
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I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.
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I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen
