Artists Quotes
-
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.
-
The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.
-
All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.
-
All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
-
Usually I get inspired by singles and not artists, but I love Macklemore.
-
Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.
-
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.
-
I'm happy that good works by young artists with limited chances will see the light of day by my purchasing them.
-
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.
-
The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.
-
As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, "Hey, we're all going to be okay. We just need to work together."
-
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.
-
The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
-
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.
-
Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.
-
Like books, artists have their fates.
-
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
-
More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up!
-
Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
-
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
-
Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
