I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you're dealing with Jerry Garcia or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case.… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as… — Terry Richardson Copy Share Image
Courage can't make you an artist, but without that courage, you won't remain one for long. First is the courage to be… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings.… — Charley Harper Copy Share Image
Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It wasn't just like, "I want to make a record that sounds like classic rock" at all. It was more like, "I… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I once won a Grammy for an Australian version of 'Turn the Page' that another artist did; I can't remember his name.… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got… — Karunas Copy Share Image
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to… — Cosimo Matassa Copy Share Image
Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally.… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
If you look at the lives of artists, sitting in nature, painting, having the freedom. I think it's over. I think we're… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it,… — T.I Copy Share Image
I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
I think I misunderstood Instagram and just thought it was people photographing their friends, and discovered there were a number of people,… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong,… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
