Artists Quotes
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The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.
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We finally have a damn voice. We feel like actual artists. We were little babies in the beginning. Now we're becoming big girls.
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Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.
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A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
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Most people assume that folks with amazing mental abilities were born this way and that they operate on a plane that's inaccessible to the rest of us. But nothing could be further from the truth. For more than a decade, I've studied people with uncanny abilities - card counters who can beat the house, self-taught artists, people who can remember an unbelievable amount of information. Here's the thing: These weren't innate skills - they were acquired.
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I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.
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I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.
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I like to work with the best artists, full stop, around the world, and just make things happen man.
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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
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I'm not interested in anything besides making some good music, helping some artists, being an executive. I'm pretty happy with that.
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There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
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We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is.
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Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.
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Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.
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The Internet is a big reason I've been successful so far. It's working for a lot of new wave artists, which I consider myself a part of.
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I very often think about doing things that I would want other artists to do. Like, if I'm a fan of whoever, I want to be treated a certain way. So I realized it came off almost elitist to ignore the whole world of Twitter and Facebook.
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I have seen some pretty big mismatches with artists and brands. It is no longer days of just sponsorship, rather it’s more about working with people who are likeminded.
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We define content very broadly. Representing chefs, designers, makeup artists - it's all important.
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I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring.
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Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.
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Other artists' music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music and a lot of soul music. I also really like a lot of new stuff.
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Usually I get inspired by singles and not artists, but I love Macklemore.
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All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
