Artists Quotes · Page 33

“Great art might not be popular, but it is always born out of non-linear, non-formulaic thinking.”

— Abhaidev

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

— Rachel Stevens

“It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them.”

— Michael Lee West

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

— Pat Metheny

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

— Kenneth Noland

The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.

— Deborah Moggach

As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.

— Vivek Shraya

Twitter is the new rock magazine of the modern age. When I was a kid, we had magazines and journalists and interviews…

— Sebastian Bach

Everyone in the industry really sort of welcomed us with open arms - at least the people we've come across so far…

— Tucker Halpern

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the…

— Ricky Skaggs

I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do…

— Anton Corbijn

People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as…

— Marina Abramovic

Don't ever believe someone that tells you "you're the next big thing". You're not. I'm not. Those people will come and go.…

— Matthew Mayfield

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those…

— Nicholas Haslam

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

— Kirsten Dunst

“Artists have to have a good eye. And to be great, I'd recommend having two.”

— Jarod Kintz

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

— Marcel Duchamp

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists

— Terrence Howard

I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a…

— Wale

I don't think a lot of artists have the freedom that I have when it comes to dressing in general.

— Alessia Cara

As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.

— Sara Genn

I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.

— Thomas Kinkade

A starving artist has only so many brush stokes before he fades away...

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I think you have some artists who try to be as conscious as they can be.

— Raheem DeVaughn

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

— Madeleine L'Engle

When you think of Atlanta, you think of all these artists but what female? I want to be that.

— Latto

All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.

— Genesis P-Orridge

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

— Fantasia Barrino

“Our great artists battle on a landscape we cannot chart, with weapons we do not comprehend, against adversaries we find unreal.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

When your principal artists deliver convincing performances, the film's quality is elevated.

— Mani Ratnam

For me, it's always an organic process. I don't personally reach out to artists without the music being created first.

— Romeo Santos

“Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.”

— Anonymous

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.

— David Russell

Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live…

— Anonymous

I like to imagine that the Neanderthals were all really good artists.

— Jim Drain

“Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.”

— Oliver Gaspirtz

“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.”

— Stephanie Lennox