Artists Quotes

Great artists need great clients.

— I. M. Pei

“Magic is logic.”

— Amit Kalantri

All artists have insecurity.

— Daryl Hall

Artists deserve to make a living

— Larry Harvey

“Real artists ship.”

— Steve Jobs

The best artists are gone now.

— Johnny Winter

I don't really idolize artists.

— Soccer Mommy

We are artists, because God is.

— Peter Kreeft

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

— Haruki Murakami

“Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

— Bertrand Russell

“Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

— Janet Jackson

Artists are often the barometers of society.

— Nancy Pearcey

“Art is the medicine for the soul.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand.

— Yasmine Hamdan

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

— Lionel Hampton

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

— Anonymous

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

— Anne Truitt

We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.

— R. O. Blechman

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

— Danny Brown

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

— Tessa Thompson

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

— Ad Reinhardt

“We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“...and as far as talent is concerned, there will be such an excess that our artists will become their own audiences, and…

— Hermann Hesse

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.

— Janelle Monae

I don't watch TV. Only while I'm doing it do I see it, really. So I don't know anything. I only know…

— Greg Cipes

The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often…

— Clifford Ross

The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only…

— Neil Patrick Harris

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit…

— Lola Kirke

I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what…

— Billy Al Bengston

Dealers claim that women artists are not as salable as men, that they are a poor investment. We know that there are…

— Agnes Gund

“I am an artist. And An artist is simply a man who is pulled along by a river: on one side sanity…

— Félix J. Palma

I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a…

— Laura Owens

“B-but, Mr Jimson, I w-want to be an artist.' 'Of course you do,' I said, 'everybody does once. But they get over…

— Joyce Cary

A lot of artists feel it's not worth it to sign with a major label, because if you don't have a giganto…

— Ann Powers

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let…

— Henry David Thoreau

We saw a need to develop a community for artists to get their music out to the masses. With MySpace, when they…

— Chris DeWolfe

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have;…

— Joe Nichols

“The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and…

— Joanna Russ