Artist Quotes

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

Ya wanna be an artist? Make art!

Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen.

I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.

The artists ultimately respond to the public.

There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.

Your best as an artist is to create something that resonates for you.

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.

Sydney is full of the craziest and most talented artists of all kinds.

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

I know a lot of artists say, 'If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

I'm a child of the '60s, so I love the fact that we are returning to a time when artists are standing up.

An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration.

Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that.

Being a digital artist enables me to take my signature pieces and place them in a dimensional reality that only really exists within my head. Then I can bring it to life.

I consider myself a digital artist, so what I'll do is create everything with technology.

You never know what an artist is going to create next.

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

It takes nothing to encourage an artist.

I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

I think Banksy is a very cool artist, and I respect his social messages.

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with.

So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.

I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.

I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if time has passed and I haven't written or made anything. I'm an artist.

A lot of artists are such narcissists.

I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.