John Lennon Quotes

If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.

John Lennon The Beatles

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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.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Country
  • Want
  • Artist

• I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Over

• Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Artist
  • Performance
  • Queen

• The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Artist

• Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Artist

• The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Artist
  • Painting

• I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Artist

• My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Perception

• We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Studio
  • Allow
  • Geniuses

• I write in the studio.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Write
  • Studio
  • I Write

• I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Know
  • Artist
  • Say

• When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Acting

• I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Artist

• Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Artist
  • Beauty

• I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

  

  Laura Nyro
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Yourself

• At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Different
  • Artist

• I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Artist
  • Radio
  • Big

• There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Perfect
  • Single
  • Artist

• The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Technology
  • Mean
  • Artist

• The real world with its common logic pushes us toward catastrophe. The artists seek in his work to free himself from this weight. Art is being transformed into politics, love into trade, education into an apparatus for stifling the mind. In the midst of such horrors, clearly only the dream within me has life. But how do other people live? -There is color, virginal expression - new, without a cage, without routine, without limit, a bath of sun and light. We must realize that nothing man does is of any value. The trouble is that people want to be paid. Only sick men can be artists. Their suffering pushes them into the accomplishment of deeds which reinvest the world with meaning. The sensitive man or the artist can only be a sick man in our civilized life, so full of lies. To think of art as a profession, how appealing! – Painting is man in the face of his downfall.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Education
  • Artist
  • Painting

• The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.

  

  Agnes Strickland
  • Instrument
  • Established
  • Reformation

• The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Character
  • Persons
  • Handle

• If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Artist
  • Studio
  • Hour