Artist Quotes

• As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people. So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That's purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Change
  • Responsibility
  • Influence

• If you're not a successful artist it's your fault.

  

  Bob Lefsetz
  • Artist
  • Fault

• Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Kind
  • Been
  • Known

• It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • People
  • Giving
  • Environment

• I'm not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don't really define what it is to be a female artist in this industry any more. It's being brave and courageous and true to yourself.

  

  Tones and I
  • Makeup
  • Brave
  • Industry

• I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Effort

• I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Song
  • Band
  • Just

• Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great works inspire greatness. Mediocre or poor works inspire mediocre or poor learning. The great accomplishments of humanity are the key to quality education.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Great
  • Education
  • Learning

• I had to learn, because as an artist myself, an artist owns that right to protect their interest of how they want to roll their project out. It's just important to give them that opportunity to roll it out the way they want to.

  

  Bryce Wilson
  • Artist
  • Learn
  • Project

• I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling a story you need a background. Just like a novelist needs background information to make a story interesting, I think an artist needs it for a picture too.

  

  Edward Sorel
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • I Love

• A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Artist
  • Parent
  • Musician

• I’m not that type of artist, I don’t need writers. I don’t need the whole fluff thing. I need to just be real with my fans. I’m not the type of artist you can put together and put into a box. I just fit better on my own.

  

  Snow Tha Product
  • Artist
  • Fans
  • Writers

• The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

  

  Beatrice M. Hinkle
  • Artist
  • Humanity

• To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

  

  Bernard Iddings Bell
  • Artist
  • Goal
  • Destined

• I don't know, it's very difficult if you're in a strange country to just barge in and say, "Hello, I'm Warren MacKenzie, and aren't you happy to have me as a guest," you know? But artists did accept us and we remained friends for many, many years, many of them as long as they lived; like Lucie Rie and Hans Coper were very good friends, and it was wonderful.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Long
  • Country
  • Wonderful

• The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

  

  William Dobell
  • Character
  • Subjects
  • Caricatures

• The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Revolution

• That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

  

  Edward Gordon Craig
  • Artist
  • Records
  • Fellows

• I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Artist
  • Fact
  • Performer

• Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of our books, thumbing through it and exclaiming, “Hey, listen to what this old guy had to say back in the twentieth century!

  

  William Attwood
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Century

• To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Mean
  • Feelings
  • Intelligent

• The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Human
  • Taste
  • Creature

• The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

  

  Abderrahmane Sissako
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Role

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