Artist Quotes
-
I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
-
I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
-
I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
-
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
-
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
-
I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.
-
When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.
-
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
-
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.
-
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
-
I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
-
I like to tell the artist what the song or album means to me, in detail. Then I let the artist run with it and create in an unrestrained manner. Once the artist gets back to me with a few ideas, I like to do the little changes to make it perfectly speak to the audience.
-
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.
-
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
-
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
-
You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.
-
I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
-
As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.
-
It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.
-
Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.
-
In my opinion, my business runs better when my family is a part of it, and I get to see my wife and kids; that makes me a better artist.
-
People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.
-
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied. For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.
-
Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.
