Artists Quotes

• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Taken
  • Very
  • Seriously

• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Friends
  • Neighbors

• Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Art
  • Affair

• It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

  

  Etta James
  • Record
  • Tribute
  • Battling

• We are so blessed as artists and entertainers, and we should use our powers to raise awareness of things where we can.

  

  Howard Dwaine Dorough The Backstreet Boys
  • Artists
  • Powers
  • Entertainers

• 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.

  

  David Galenson
  • Artist
  • Influence
  • Innovation

• 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.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Work
  • School
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Sorrow

• Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Artists
  • Actually

• 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.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Art
  • Style
  • Characters

• 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.

  

  Gary Reilly
  • Artists
  • Failed
  • Novelists

• 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.

  

  Anthony Heald
  • Job
  • Actors
  • Texture

• We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Life
  • Artists
  • U.S.

• I buy the CDs of my favorite artists like Journey, Death Cab for Cutie, and The Format.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Journey
  • Artists
  • Favorite

• 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.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Popular
  • Perception

• 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.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Shadows
  • Creations
  • Archimedes

• Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Place
  • Dead

• What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • Art
  • True

• I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Artists

• Artists need to express.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Need
  • Artists
  • Express

• 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.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Dreams
  • Achieve
  • Desires

• 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.

  

  Suga BTS
  • Believe
  • Passion
  • Performers

• Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Artists
  • Back

• I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.

  

  Paul Schrader
  • Interesting
  • Door
  • Break

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