Artist Quotes
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I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.
Reeve Carney -
It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
Bebe Rexha
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
Chuck Berry -
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy -
I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
Zac Efron -
Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
Waylon Jennings -
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
Adam Ferguson -
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
Hans Hofmann
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
Fetty Wap -
I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
Raekwon -
I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.
Keith Haring -
I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
Questlove -
I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.
Damian Loeb
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
Kara Walker -
I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
Alyssa Milano -
I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
K. Flay -
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
Oscar Wilde -
I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
Nancy Sinatra -
I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
Lady Gaga
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I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.
Sam Smith -
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
T.I. -
I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.
Ariana Grande