Artists Quotes
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I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.
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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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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."
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.
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Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
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I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.
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All men are creative but few are artists.
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While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.
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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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Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.
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There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.
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True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
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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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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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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.
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I guess I learned a couple of good lessons from my dad. One was when you're creating something, what you want when you're working with a team of other artists, is everybody to work with some creative freedom, so that you really get the best out of everybody.
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I’ve seen a lot of musicians play that, and I don’t want to do that because I have a saying that most artists are failures as human beings.
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An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.
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My work is independent of my will. My best works are created when driven by an inner strength. This has nothing to do with my will. It is that immediate spontaneity of my intense way of living that makes the difference between my work and a lot of other artists who make art works with their mind.
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It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.
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Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.
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At first glance it would seem, of course, that no two subjects could possibly be further apart than an underground society of pickup artists and supercomputer chess. What on earth do these two narratives have to do with each other—and what do they have to do with asserting myself as human in the Turing test? The answer is surprising, and it hinges on what chess players call “getting out of book.” We’ll look at what that means in chess and in conversation, how to make it happen, and what the consequences are if you don’t.
