Artists Quotes · Page 25

What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.

— Eli Broad

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

— Ted Naifeh

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.”

— Amit Kalantri

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

— Janina Gavankar

“I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

— David Hockney

When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

— Jack Antonoff

It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then…

— Clinton Sparks

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of…

— Joe Nichols

My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three…

— Luanne Rice

I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a…

— Tom Scholz

I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that…

— Diana Ross

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but…

— Alan Bennett

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a…

— Steve Albini

For me, in a world full of armies of stylists and makeup artists, what I think truly makes a fashion icon is…

— Derek Blasberg

“I found that those friends of mine who welcomed the unseen into the realm of their seen offered immediate understanding. Some are…

— Carolyn Weber

Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Obviously, the Sixties was a time when everyone wanted to experiment, and then everything became very formulated and corporate, so artists tended…

— Steve Winwood

“We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is…

— Jessica Lave

“Kamera ina athari kubwa sana katika maisha yetu. Inaweza kuharibu taswira ya mtu mbele ya jamii, na inaweza kuharibu maisha ya mtu…

— Enock Maregesi

I think that there are artists of different genres whose calling is to use their art to hope to affect and better…

— Tom Morello

'Dawson's Creek' was my introduction to the industry. It put some money in my pocket and it put me in the position…

— Michael Pitt

I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to…

— Raini Rodriguez

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

— H. L. Mencken

It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.

— Frankie J. Grande

I'm someone who lives with the work of artists I've been lucky enough to know or trade with.

— Zoe Buckman

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

— Brice Marden

She's been around so long and she doesn't disappoint ever. Gaga also thinks out of the box and that's what the best…

— Ava Max

We must have belief in BAME artists and have total trust in their work.

— Paterson Joseph

Is there such a thing as black art? Or are there just artists who are black?

— Glenn Ligon

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

— Lucy Alibar

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

— Ezra Furman

“True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.

— Phil Everly

I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.

— La'Porsha Renae

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

— Jim Carroll

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

— Laura Mvula

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

— Andrew Jack