300 Quotes on Artists

• True love embraces imperfection as a work of art informed by its environment--enchanted, oscillating, ever living.

  Author: Elara Raymont

• In the silent corners of history, forgotten artists stretch between the worlds of imagination, nourishing the rusted roots of forgotten dreams.

  Author: Miranda Idos

• I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

  Author: John Zorn

• Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

  Author: Andrew Wyeth

• Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• The more far-out artists, the better.

  Author: Gary Wright

• Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

  Author: Gary Wright

• I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

  Author: Gary Wright

• I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

  Author: Gary Wright

• But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

  Author: Lee Womack

• The best artists are gone now.

  Author: Johnny Winter

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

  Author: Kip Winger

• Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

  Author: Dave Winer

• 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

• Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

• They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

• Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

  Author: Roy Williams

• I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.

  Author: Kit Williams

• 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

• What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

  Author: Bryan White

• I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

  Author: Bryan White

• The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

  Author: Margaret Weis

• For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

  Author: Shawn Wayans

• I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.

  Author: Jody Watley

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

  Author: Gedde Watanabe

• Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

  Author: Lew Wasserman

• Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

  Author: Gordon Waller

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

  Author: Don Vliet

• But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

  Author: Tony Visconti

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

  Author: Queen Victoria

• There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

  Author: Boris Vallejo

• 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

• 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

• They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

  Author: Ike Turner

• I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

  Author: Francois Truffaut

• The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

  Author: James Thurber

• Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

  Author: James Thurber

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

  Author: Richard Thompson

• Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

  Author: Alexander Theroux

• I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

  Author: Yves Tanguy

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

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

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

  Author: Ice T

• People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.

  Author: David Sylvian

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

  Author: Jim Sullivan

• All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.

  Author: Ruben Studdard

• You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect.

  Author: Ruben Studdard

• I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.

  Author: Gloria Stuart

• Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

  Author: Tara Strong

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!

  Author: Rachel Stevens

• The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

  Author: Saul Steinberg

• I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• 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

• 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 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

• I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• 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

• At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

  Author: Marla Sokoloff

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

  Author: Robert Smithson

• Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

  Author: Patti Smith

• An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

  Author: Patti Smith

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

  Author: Patti Smith

• The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

  Author: Logan Smith

• Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

  Author: Ricky Skaggs

• The industry is a menace to artists.

  Author: Nikki Sixx

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

  Author: Nikki Sixx

• I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

  Author: Douglas Sirk

• When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

  Author: Joe Simon

• My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

  Author: Russell Simmons

• Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

  Author: Ron Silver

• I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.

  Author: Josh Silver

• People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.

  Author: Michelle Shocked

• Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

  Author: John Shirley

• It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

  Author: Brooke Shields

• Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists.

  Author: Duncan Sheik

• 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 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

• It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

  Author: Anton Seidl

• 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

• The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

  Author: Jill Scott

• 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

• Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

  Author: Paul Schrader

• 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

• Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

  Author: John Schlesinger

• What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

  Author: Egon Schiele

• The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

  Author: Michael Schenker

• 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

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

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• 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

• Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.

  Author: Joe Sacco

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

  Author: Georges Rouault

• 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

• Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

  Author: Alfred Rosenberg

• The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.

  Author: Sonny Rollins

• I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

  Author: Henry Rollins

• True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

  Author: Auguste Rodin

• The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

  Author: Norman Rockwell

• Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

  Author: David Rockefeller

• They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

  Author: David Rockefeller

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

  Author: Smokey Robinson

• When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

  Author: Johnny Rivers

• Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

  Author: Tommy Rettig

• I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

  Author: Lou Reed

• The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

  Author: Herbert Read

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

  Author: Robert Rauschenberg

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

  Author: Johnny Ramone

• As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.

  Author: Suzi Quatro

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

  Author: Charley Pride

• The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  Author: Jackson Pollock

• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  Author: Camille Pissarro

• Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

  Author: Steven Pinker

• 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

• Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

  Author: Albert Pike

• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

  Author: Liz Phair

• 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

• There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.

  Author: Pauley Perrette

• People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

  Author: Harvey Pekar

• 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

• Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

  Author: Cesare Pavese

• I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

  Author: Estelle Parsons

• 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

• From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

  Author: Paracelsus

• 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

• I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.

  Author: Stacie Orrico

• You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

  Author: Stacie Orrico

• Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

  Author: Yoko Ono

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

  Author: Yoko Ono

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

  Author: Sharon Olds

• Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

  Author: Carroll O'Connor

• Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

  Author: Kenneth Noland

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

  Author: Kenneth Noland

• You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

  Author: Leonard Nimoy

• 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

• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  Author: Gavin Newsom

• I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

  Author: Louise Nevelson

• I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.

  Author: Judd Nelson

• A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

  Author: Holly Near

• Great artists have no country.

  Author: Alfred Musset

• Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

  Author: Joe Murray

• There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.

  Author: Samantha Mumba

• We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

  Author: Jason Mraz

• Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

  Author: Alison Moyet

• 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

• Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

  Author: Steven Morrissey

• Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

  Author: Desmond Morris

• Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

  Author: Giorgio Moroder

• For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

  Author: Ron Moody

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

  Author: Colin Mochrie

• At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.

  Author: Mark Millar

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

  Author: Mark Millar

• Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

  Author: John Milius

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

  Author: Michelangelo

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

  Author: Sarah McLachlan

• Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

  Author: Roger McGuinn

• I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.

  Author: Tim McGraw

• I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

  Author: Tim McGraw

• I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

  Author: Todd McFarlane

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

  Author: Craig McCracken

• Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.

  Author: George Martin

• I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.

  Author: Andrea Martin

• I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company.

  Author: Branford Marsalis

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

  Author: Marc Maron

• Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.

  Author: Franz Marc

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

  Author: Robert Mapplethorpe

• These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

  Author: Marilyn Manson

• For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.

  Author: Howie Mandel

• Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

  Author: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

• Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.

  Author: Miriam Makeba

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

  Author: Gary Lucas

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

  Author: Nick Lowe

• I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

  Author: David Lloyd

• 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

• I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

  Author: David Lloyd

• The best artists know what to leave out.

  Author: Charles Lint

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

  Author: Richard Linklater

• Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

  Author: Maya Lin

• I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

  Author: Sol LeWitt

• When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

  Author: Sol LeWitt

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

  Author: Sol LeWitt

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

  Author: Sol LeWitt

• Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

  Author: George Lewes

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

  Author: Jack Levine

• When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

  Author: Jonathan Lethem

• I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

  Author: Jonathan Lethem

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

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

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

  Author: Annie Lennox

• These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

  Author: John Lennon

• In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

  Author: John Legend

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

  Author: Ted Lange

• I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

  Author: Talib Kweli

• All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

  Author: John Kricfalusi

• Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

  Author: John Kricfalusi

• From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

  Author: John Kricfalusi

• I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

  Author: John Kricfalusi

• 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

• I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.

  Author: Lenny Kravitz

• So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

  Author: Diana Krall

• Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.

  Author: Kathe Kollwitz

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

  Author: Boris Kodjoe

• I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.

  Author: Boris Kodjoe

• The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

  Author: Boris Kodjoe

• Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

  Author: Boris Kodjoe

• Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

  Author: Suge Knight

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

  Author: Mia Kirshner

• I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

  Author: Maynard Keenan

• Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

  Author: Maynard Keenan

• Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.

  Author: Anish Kapoor

• Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

  Author: Anish Kapoor

• It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

  Author: Pauline Kael

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

  Author: Donald Judd

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

  Author: Erica Jong

• 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

• Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

  Author: George Jones

• We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.

  Author: Davy Jones

• We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

  Author: Adam Jones

• The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.

  Author: Guy Johnson

• The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

  Author: Don Johnson

• As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

  Author: Jasper Johns

• In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

  Author: Jasper Johns

• You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

  Author: Waylon Jennings

• Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.

  Author: Waylon Jennings

• People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

  Author: Tahar Jelloun

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

  Author: Etta James

• 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

• Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

  Author: Ahmad Jamal

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

  Author: Helmut Jahn

• 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

• All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

  Author: Andrew Jack

• The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

  Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

• I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

  Author: Tony Iommi

• I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

  Author: Robert Indiana

• I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

  Author: William Hurt

• David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

  Author: William Hurt

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

  Author: Terrence Howard

• 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

• Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

  Author: Brad Holland

• The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

  Author: Brad Holland

• The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

  Author: Brad Holland

• 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 don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

  Author: Howard Hodgkin

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

  Author: Howard Hodgkin

• Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

  Author: David Hockney

• Artists are like everybody else.

  Author: Damien Hirst

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

  Author: Al Hirschfeld

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

  Author: Lauryn Hill

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• In the quiet pause between data streams, algorithmic intuition reveals extrapolations excluded from empirical squeak -- listen more keenly than unleash.

  Author: Alec Sonnet

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

  Author: Skitch Henderson

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

  Author: Skitch Henderson

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

  Author: Donal Henahan

• The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

  Author: Benjamin Haydon

• I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

  Author: Brian Harvey

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

  Author: Jerry Harrison

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

  Author: Harry Harrison

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

  Author: Isaac Hanson

• The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week.

  Author: John Hall

• I've always gotten along best with artists.

  Author: Jerry Hall

• And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

  Author: John Haldane

• I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.

  Author: Nina Hagen

• Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

  Author: Steve Guttenberg

• Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.

  Author: Justin Guarini

• Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.

  Author: Edvard Grieg

• 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

• There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

  Author: Anna Green

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

  Author: Norman Granz

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

  Author: Norman Granz

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

  Author: Norman Granz

• 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

• There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

  Author: Eddy Grant

• The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.

  Author: Eddy Grant

• 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

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

  Author: Whoopi Goldberg

• For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

  Author: Tom Glazer

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

  Author: Nikki Giovanni

• It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

  Author: Crystal Gayle

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