Artists Quotes
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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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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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My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.
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I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.
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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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Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
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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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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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I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your bank account, whatever is going on in your life on the professional side.
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I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.
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Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.
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I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for the ride. Acting really reminds me of that because I don't write the words; I don't make the decisions. That's the director. Narcissism is a tragic condition. It must be so miserable to live trapped in a reflection that only includes the smallest version of our identities. Our true identities should have no bounds and no limits.
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There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
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These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.
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The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature are mind's Environment within which we can detect the essence of man's Being and Purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness.
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I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.
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There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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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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For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.
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I'm happy that good works by young artists with limited chances will see the light of day by my purchasing them.
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If I did a Rock record, it would be equally as truthful because I love Rock. I had to actually sing to Bon Jovi one time and I felt like he believed me. He's one of my favorite artists, so there's nothing better than the truth.
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
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For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.
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The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.
