Artists Quotes · Page 29

There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

— Eric Idle

“That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Douglas Sirk

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we…

— Maya Angelou

The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists.

— Maria Konnikova

“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.

— El DeBarge

I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists…

— Kirsten Dunst

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All…

— Mireille Mathieu

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the…

— Stjepan Hauser

Dance has always just been an extension of music for me. It's about putting my music into motion. It's just another dimension…

— Tinashe

There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the…

— Andrew Bird

“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as…

— Shawn Wayans

At a festival, a lot of people came to see other artists, so you have to put on a signature set and…

— Afrojack

I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the…

— Nancy Spero

It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The language of worldview tends to imply...that we can think ourselves into new ways of behaving. But that is not the way…

— Andy Crouch

When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at…

— Blake Shelton

“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I…

— Abhaidev

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

— Jacob Lawrence

“I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses.”

— Anne Truitt

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know…

— Jasper Johns

I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.

— Diana Ross

“Stop teasing you two,” Suzy jumped in, “not all of Kathy’s ideas are wacky.” “Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it’s an almost losing battle against it.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.

— Sophie Blackall

I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.

— Cornelia Parker

Most artists I know have gone through some period that forces them to get to the very core of who they are.

— Melody Gardot

There are artists who make their living now going to conventions... because now you can.

— George Perez

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

— Idina Menzel

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

— Ryan Lewis

I like that I'm an engineer - it sets me apart from a lot of other artists.

— Syd

Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

— Marshall McLuhan