Artist Quotes
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For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.
Francois Mitterrand -
He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.
Bob Colacello
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I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.
Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn -
I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
Anne Truitt -
Not every artist is a role model.
Iggy Azalea -
You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.
Randy Travis -
I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
Gary Wright -
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
Auguste Renoir -
Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.
Ian Astbury The Cult -
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
Kanye West -
A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
Plato -
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
Ira Sachs -
When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.
OMI -
Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
Wale -
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
Faith Hill -
I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
Wayne Thiebaud -
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
Nat King Cole -
You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.
Idina Menzel
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
M. Night Shyamalan -
Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel -
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.
Oscar Wilde -
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.
Wayne Thiebaud