Artists Quotes
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I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
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It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
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Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.
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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
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We are so blessed as artists and entertainers, and we should use our powers to raise awareness of things where we can.
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A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the right texture of yarn, and working out the color scheme, and binding off the weave, and making it just right.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
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All Children are Artists.
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I buy the CDs of my favorite artists like Journey, Death Cab for Cutie, and The Format.
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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.
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Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.
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We believe that we'll get what we want if we continue to be BTS and know what to do as artists and performers with passion.
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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.
