Artists Quotes · Page 30

I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals.

— Zoe Buckman

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

— Tamara Feldman

I think that a lot of times you have artists that try to deliver a positive message.

— Big Daddy Kane

“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.”

— Arthur Holitscher

I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that.

— Chris Stokes

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

— Barbra Streisand

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

— Roger McGuinn

We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

— Alan Sparhawk

“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in…

— Anonymous

I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has…

— Earl Monroe

Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling…

— Karen DeCrow

“Note to myself - It is time for me to start taking my guitar lessons. One of my neighbor's singing and guitar…

— Avijeet Das

“Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not…

— Don DeLillo

“The sound a box of Lego makes is the noise of a child's mind working, looking for the right piece. Shake it,…

— Grayson Perry

And a lot of the artists and people that we hired were fans of Transformers growing up, so having so many fans…

— Michael Bay

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be…

— Keri Hilson

“I thought of the cool, fresh air of the city I'd always dreamed of living in. The art museums and trolleys and…

— Heather Demetrios

“Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across…

— Gregory Maguire

We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it's really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to…

— Mick Jagger

The perfect party for me is having six to 12 people for dinner Friday or Saturday - good, fun friends, a lot…

— Sofia Milos

I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on my ability to…

— Christine Anderson

I would love to do something with many artists, you know: Fantasia, Cardi B, Lil Wayne, J.Lo, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson. There's…

— Big Freedia

I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get…

— Landon Liboiron

I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of…

— Rain

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

— Keith Urban

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

— Isaac Hanson

I think that there should be more artists that want to be the escape for people, for the fans, for the public.

— Poppy

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

— Kim Dotcom

“And in uttering that Excellently executed truth You become an artist too”

— Maddy Kobar

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

— Eli Broad

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

— Nadeem Aslam

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

— David Bayles

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don't know any better.

— Billie Eilish

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

— Kiki Smith

All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

“Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We're trying to give back to artists of colour and make the journey for them a little easier.

— Mena Massoud

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

— Alan Arkin

A lot of true Jamaican artists don't understand the importance of radio so tend not to tap into that as a result.

— Shaggy

We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

— William McDonough