Artist Quotes
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I'm not a rapper; I'm an artist. And I'm more than an artist. I'm a brand.
Lil Yachty -
A primitive power of artistic sensuousness speaks from the prints, which itself develops directly from the graphic technique that is tied to painstaking effort. Like the 'savage' who with patience cuts the figure.. ..out of the hard wood, so the artist creates perhaps his purest and strongest pieces.. ..following the primordial curse, if one may so understand it: from the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.
Tea Leoni -
I feel like every artist has a place in their mind, this place where they exist artistically. And I just want to take people to mine, and my place is called Loveland. In Loveland, there's no war, and there's peace.
Raheem DeVaughn -
There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.
Bob Mould Hüsker Dü -
Hema ji is a dedicated artist and a perfectionist who continues to rehearse on her lines till she gets them right.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.
Dane DeHaan -
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.
Olafur Eliasson
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Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there’s a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you’re an artist and you’re a feminist.
Carolee Schneemann -
I've been influenced by someone or English artists work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.
Warren MacKenzie -
The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
Laurie Anderson -
I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.
Jason Mraz
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All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.
Howard Dwaine Dorough The Backstreet Boys -
The artist should have as little desire to rule as to serve. He can only create, do nothing but create, and so help the state only by … exalting politicians and economists into artists.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
Malcolm Wilson -
There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
Georges St-Pierre -
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Harold Rosenberg
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People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.
Liam Payne One Direction -
But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
Parker Posey -
Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.
Cornelia Parker