Artist Quotes

• As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Want
  • Artist

• I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Girl

• I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Great
  • Art
  • Working

• Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

  

  Wilson Pickett
  • Artist
  • Berries

• The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Art
  • True
  • Martial Arts

• I know it is crazy, every time I release something now people say I am becoming more rough and tough. I guess my direction has been changing, I think this new album is a better reflection of who I am as an artist and as a person, I have changed a lot since the Boyzone days.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Music
  • Truth

• As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Issue
  • Luxury
  • Solving

• The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Me
  • Best
  • Artist

• Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.

  

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
  • Creation
  • His
  • Belongs

• I wanted to show that 'I'm sexy'. I wanted to do things that other male solo artists hadn't done before, such as choreography that has a tempting allure.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Done
  • Sexy
  • Choreography

• I've never been a die-hard fan, like a crazy fan for an artist.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Die
  • Crazy
  • Never

• This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Experience
  • Pride
  • Discover

• I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Music
  • Single
  • Hear

• Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Work
  • Real
  • Question

• Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Different
  • Laws
  • Exist

• The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Artist

• I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Know
  • Artist

• That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.

  

  Ursula Nordstrom
  • Creative
  • Chaos
  • Order

• Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Risk
  • Creative
  • Explore

• People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Artist
  • Media

• I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Artist

• The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Attitude
  • Absurd
  • Chaotic

• What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

  

  A. Y. Jackson
  • War
  • Death
  • Forever

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