If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and…

The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict…

— Willie Brown

To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle…

— Cornel West

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

— Anais Nin

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

— Billy Corgan

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to…

— Amanda Palmer

I want to be a genuine artist who has a say in what I do.

— Leah LaBelle

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

— Isabelle Adjani

When I'm getting ready for a part, the makeup artist will often say something like: 'Oh, you don't seem the type for a tattoo.'

— Jason Watkins

People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.

— Johnny Cash

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

— Labrinth

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's…

— Alice Walker

The artist must say it without saying it.

— Duke Ellington

I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say.…

— Candida Hofer

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

— David Mamet

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it…

— Tyga