Artist Quotes
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I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.
Grace Slick Starship -
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
Tom Stoppard
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Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.
Lady Gaga -
It was all done at the same time. We sort of arranged the whole thing and cut it in half. A good example is an artist who does two canvases. He paints an abstract painting and then splits them. He shows the public the first piece and has them get used to that first piece. Then he gets the second piece and lets them get used to it, and then he puts them together and lets them see how they make sense together. So they make sense separately, but they also make sense together.
Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian Achozen -
An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
Willa Cather -
I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.
Raekwon -
I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.
Victor Vasarely -
The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.
Ed Parker
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People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
Tony Kushner -
The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
Damien Hirst -
In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it's a good mixture of supporting artists to make movies. But, on the other side, everyone still wants to make money making movies. Again, even in the European film business, it's expensive to make movies.
Baran Odar -
We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies.
Fady Joudah -
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this
Steve Albini Big Black -
I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.
Willis Earl Beal
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The first artist whose music I really got into was Paolo Nutini. When his album 'Sunny Side Up' came out, I think I listened to it on repeat for, like, six months.
Lewis Capaldi -
I know a lot of artists say, `If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.
Kelly Clarkson -
The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
Laurie Anderson -
Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.
Erica Jong -
I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their own path and have the inspiration and the drive to, and the energy and dedication to take their path to its fruition. I don't really believe in formulas.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
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Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.
Ayi Kwei Armah -
If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
FKA twigs -
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.
Bebe Rexha -
You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
Laura Anne Gilman