Artist Quotes

Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

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

Artists need to express.

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. "Thinking of You" is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at the prom.

I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.

I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a talking movie [The Artist], I'm sure she would be exactly the same for me.

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.

I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring to that world. It helps to know what you're good at.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.

Cartooning is an honorable thing

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs.

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by

Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

An artist is always in the state of becoming.

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.