Artist Quotes

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person.

I want people to take me seriously as an artist and to hear that I have something to truly say and to offer.

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.

The biggest enemy of an artist is apathy... A kid gets killed by the police and I buy a T-shirt and before I can wear that one, there's another kid (killed) and I'm running out of closet space.

I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.

I want to make decisions as to where I want to go as an artist, and to get to it in my own way

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

I think people are intolerant of artists.

At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything I could to tailor it to the artist I was working with.

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.

There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away.

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

I have to say, that's pretty typical for artists, kind of embarrassingly typical for artists that everything is all about selection.

Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.

There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity of everyone else in the community.

I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.

I've only covered a few songs because I feel that if you're not going to go beyond the original artist in some way, then don't disrespect what they created.

Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.

The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

When you're an artist, you have a platform that can reach millions.

I was judgmental of artists who were exploring their sexuality, and I thought, Why are they doing that? They don't have to. They've got a good voice.

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.