Artist Quotes

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

Makeup artists are always giving me their stuff. My favorite thing is free stuff. I'll take anything.

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that, from focusing strictly on an artists canon.

Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

Im not the type of artist thats like, Lets go out and party and dance your life away! I think those artists are so cool, but I wanted meaning in my songs and they have messages.

The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

I think even when I was little there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist.

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.

Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

I don't really feel like a rock artist, but I guess in the small category of the world of music genres, that's where I fall in because I've got a guitar.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

I had a lot of fun [on The Voice] and I learned a whole lot about reality TV, for one, and how they kind of use the artists as characters to make a hit TV show.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.

Artists have the responsibility to serve humanity give people hope.

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

Pro-Tip: Ask for one clear action per panel. Don't ask your artist to do two, three, or more things in a shot. You want those? Add more panels.

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.