Artist Quotes

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

Henry Rollins Black Flag
- Sound
- Half
- Albums
My name came from me wanting a 'double-letter' artist name. In search of the ultimate L-word to put in front of my real name Luke, I heard Snoop Dogg rapping in Gin and Juice 'Laaaaiiidbackk...' and I was sold!

Laidback Luke
- Real
- Search
- Rap

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

Boy George Culture Club
Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds these things together in his basic presentation. He knows what he is doing. And how to do it. And then to his he adds his message.

L. Ron Hubbard
- Writing
- Together
- Artist
We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbidden

Catherine Fisher
- World
- Age
- Progress
It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!

Paul Auster
- World
- Done
- Terrible
The thing about conceptual art is that it has no solid or finite meaning. So the work can exist simultaneously in many minds at once, and all those minds can see it differently. The artist offers the clues. The spectator offers the reading. You see what you want to see.

Waldemar Januszczak
- Art
- Exist
- Simultaneously
I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

Sean Kingston
- Should
- Box
- Categorized