Artists Quotes
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To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.
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For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.
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Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
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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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The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.
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My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
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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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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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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!
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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
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Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.
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It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.
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The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.
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A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, 'Wow, that movie' - or that show or whatever - 'turned out really well.'
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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.
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I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.
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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.
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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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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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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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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!
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The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
