Artists Quotes
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Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain. They're on this journey - they're on this earth to change things, to make things incredible - and then they're not with us anymore.
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I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.
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What makes the music business wrong is when executives start to believe that they’re more important than the artists,I’ve never gotten to that place.
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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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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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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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Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.
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I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
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The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.
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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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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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Like books, artists have their fates.
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Usually I get inspired by singles and not artists, but I love Macklemore.
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I usually work with artists only, so I do my research on them first, then I listen to their previous material and watch interviews they did. That way, I could get a wider idea of where they come from and what their taste in music is.
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The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.
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Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
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I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do as artists.
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All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
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Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.
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A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.
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The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
