Artists Quotes · Page 26

Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.

— Roberta Smith

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

— Nan Goldin

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

— Solomon Burke

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

— Frank Gehry

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

— Alicia Keys

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

— John Romero

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

— Donald Judd

Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution.

— Clive Davis

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and…

— Walter Kirn

I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt…

— David Byrne

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the…

— Brad Holland

I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and…

— Kevin Systrom

When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place…

— Chance The Rapper

My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't…

— Rupert Friend

Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a…

— Jesse Harris

My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all…

— P. J. Harvey

God knows that we are creative artists when it comes to our lives. On one day, he gives us clay for sculpting,…

— Anonymous

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers…

— Darell Hammond

“That’s what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks’ thoughts. Feel their…

— Dan Simmons

Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts…

— Ryan Kavanaugh

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that…

— John Sebastian

In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the…

— Arne Glimcher

“Thanks for your encouraging words. But I know the grim realities of being an artist. Most of us would never make a…

— Abhaidev

One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I…

— Jeff Bridges

“I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.”

— Jean Cocteau

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.

— Ryan Kavanaugh

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

— Pierre Berton

You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.

— Anohni

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

— Thelma Golden

“Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in…

— Loren Weisman

Most solo artists go out on their own and put their name on the record. I prefer to create little alternative universes.

— Mike Patton

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

— Georg Baselitz

There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.

— Marina Abramovic

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

— Bob Ross

In the future, we'd like to support upcoming artists, people that are trying to be actors.

— Evan Spiegel

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

— Doug Stanhope

“Women born works of art, men doomed to spend entire lifetimes trying to create just one.”

— J. Andrew Schrecker

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

— Trevor Paglen

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

— Auguste Rodin