Artist Quotes
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I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.
Stephanie Young Hwang
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don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.
Lucille Clifton
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My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'.
He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.
David Peace
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I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you square between the eyeballs and you know that's the artist for the story.
William Katt
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Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.
Cleve Jones
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There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are Jews." What she means is that writers and artists are outside the normal flow of daily life, the normal flow of society in general.
Paul Auster
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everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
Muriel Spark
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I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.
Quentin Tarantino
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When I have young artists who come up and talk about my records and tell me they remember certain songs or that they used to play my records or play my songs, and when they know the music, it just boggles my mind. I love that. It's very rewarding.
Steven Wariner
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As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.
Nick Littlemore
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What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.
Ian Astbury
The Cult
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
Sarah Bernhardt