Artists Quotes

Great artists suffer for the people.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

In the UK and the US especially you've got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their show. There's many artists who would not do a live show because they know they can't.

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

Artists need to express.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

Women artists are still treated differently from men.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and so forth that I visit regularly. That's the closest thing I have to a strategy: I go to a lot of places, many that artists don't visit.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

But I also think it's up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well.

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.

I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.