Artists Quotes
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Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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We are very excited about the diversity of artists and performances.
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I've been a huge fan of Adele, Sam Smith, and Ed Sheeran, and those amazing artists draw inspiration from their present and past experiences; they write songs from their heart.
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We're just not the type of artists that take anything for granted and just feel like, 'Oh yeah, you just know something great is going to happen.' We're not like that.
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My favourite artists are like that and you see them grow up through their records. I’m trying to follow the same path.
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My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry her off is only an "artists projection" to when she's 85 and out of the convent!
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On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.
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You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity.
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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
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It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.
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If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.
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Drag artists are more men than real men. You need a lot of courage, personality, and guts to go out there. Even if you look good or you look bad, you still need to have all of those things to be on stage. You're going to get criticized by everyone.
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You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
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I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.
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The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.
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There were at least 500-600 proposals after our initial call to artists in early January. We approved a little less than half of them, but not all were made.
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What if Picasso had gone to the Moon? Or Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson or John Lennon? What about Coco Chanel? These are all artists that I adore.
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Right now, we all have decent jobs. We're not, like, struggling artists trying to scrape by.
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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
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We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.
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I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.
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Everybody thinks scientists are cold and rational. The truth is that nothing could be more passionate than the search for scientific discoveries that break down barriers and change paradigms of thinking. Working with these artists was such an amazing experience that opened us up in ways we could never guess. We found that we had so much in common.
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Most people think I do street art, so I do everything for nothing. I'm an urchin who paints walls and does work for nothing. That's the first misconception about street artists, that we just paint for nothing.
