Quotes on Artists

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

Author: Paula Abdul

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

Author: Laurie Anderson

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

Author: Jeffrey Archer

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

Author: Jane Badler

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Author: Maurice Baring

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

Author: Bela Bartok

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Author: Kathleen Battle

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

Author: Adrian Belew

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

Author: Clint Black

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

Author: Jimmy Black

We're not cameras, we're artists.

Author: Frank Bruno

It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.

Author: Joe Cocker

Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way.

Author: Will Cook

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

Author: Mason Cooley

Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

Author: Wayne Coyne

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

Author: Peter Coyote

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.

Author: Rick Danko

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

Author: Maurice Denis

I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.

Author: Jackie DeShannon

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

Author: Dietrich Dieskau

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.

Author: Spencer Dryden

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Author: Marcel Duchamp

We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.

Author: Jermaine Dupri

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

Author: Kenneth Edmonds

It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.

Author: Kenneth Edmonds

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

Author: Greg Egan

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

Author: Garth Ennis

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Author: Arthur Erickson

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

Author: Luc Ferrari

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.

Author: Glenn Frey

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

Author: Peter Gallagher

However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

Author: Pat Garrett

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

Author: Nikki Giovanni

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

Author: Whoopi Goldberg

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.

Author: Tipper Gore

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.

Author: Norman Granz

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

Author: Norman Granz

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.

Author: Norman Granz

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

Author: Norman Granz

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

Author: Brian Green

I've always gotten along best with artists.

Author: Jerry Hall

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

Author: Isaac Hanson

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

Author: Harry Harrison

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

Author: Jerry Harrison

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Author: Benjamin Haydon

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

Author: Donal Henahan

But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

Author: Skitch Henderson

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

Author: Skitch Henderson

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

Author: Don Henley

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

Author: Jack Herer

I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go, 'Are you crazy? I could read my stuff forever!' Now it's a little harder.

Author: Jaime Hernandez

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

Author: Charlton Heston

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Author: Lauryn Hill

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

Author: Al Hirschfeld

Artists are like everybody else.

Author: Damien Hirst

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

Author: Howard Hodgkin

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

Author: Howard Hodgkin

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

Author: Brad Holland

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

Author: Terrence Howard

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

Author: Robert Indiana

For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done.

Author: Alan Jackson

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

Author: Helmut Jahn

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.

Author: Jamelia

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

Author: Etta James

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

Author: Waylon Jennings

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Author: Don Johnson

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

Author: Kelly Jones

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Author: Erica Jong

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.

Author: Donald Judd

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Author: Anish Kapoor

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.

Author: Mia Kirshner

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

Author: Boris Kodjoe

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

Author: Lenny Kravitz

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

Author: John Kricfalusi

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

Author: Ted Lange

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t.

Author: Annie Lennox

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

Author: Lawrence Lessig

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

Author: Jack Levine

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

Author: Sol LeWitt

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

Author: Sol LeWitt

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

Author: Richard Linklater

The best artists know what to leave out.

Author: Charles Lint

Alan is a great guy, a terrific guy. We haven't worked together since then, and he's always working with different artists. I think he sees different dimensions he can see from different guys.

Author: David Lloyd

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

Author: Nick Lowe

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

Author: Gary Lucas

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Author: Robert Mapplethorpe

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

Author: Marc Maron

We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.

Author: Sarah McLachlan

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Author: Michelangelo

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

Author: John Milius

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

Author: Mark Millar

I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

Author: Colin Mochrie

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

Author: Desmond Morris

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

Author: Mark Mothersbaugh

Great artists have no country.

Author: Alfred Musset

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.

Author: Jack Nicholson

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

Author: Kenneth Noland

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

Author: Kenneth Noland

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

Author: Sharon Olds

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

Author: Yoko Ono

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

Author: Brad Paisley

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

Author: Maxfield Parrish

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Author: Cesare Pavese

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

Author: Harvey Pekar

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

Author: Madeleine Peyroux

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Author: Pablo Picasso

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Author: Steven Pinker

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

Author: Charley Pride

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

Author: Johnny Ramone

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

Author: Robert Rauschenberg

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

Author: Smokey Robinson

I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that.

Author: Diana Ross

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

Author: Georges Rouault

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Author: Marilyn Savant

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

Author: Boz Scaggs

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

Author: John Schlesinger

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

Author: Martin Scorsese

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.

Author: John Sebastian

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

Author: Anton Seidl

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.

Author: Shakira

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.

Author: Josh Silver

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

Author: Nikki Sixx

The industry is a menace to artists.

Author: Nikki Sixx

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

Author: Patti Smith

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

Author: Patti Smith

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

Author: Robert Smithson

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Author: Robert Smithson

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

Author: Robert Smithson

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

Author: Wole Soyinka

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

Author: Jo Stafford

Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.

Author: Edwin Starr

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

Author: Mary Steenburgen

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Author: Igor Stravinsky

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

Author: Ice T

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

Author: Amber Tamblyn

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

Author: Richard Thompson

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Author: Lionel Trilling

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

Author: John Updike

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.

Author: Keith Urban

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Author: Queen Victoria

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

Author: Don Vliet

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

Author: Gedde Watanabe

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

Author: William Wiley

So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys.

Author: Mike Wilson

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

Author: Kip Winger

The best artists are gone now.

Author: Johnny Winter

The more far-out artists, the better.

Author: Gary Wright