Artist Quotes · Page 347

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Often when people are claiming that they are not creative, they mean that they are not artists, writers, athletes, or any other…

— Michael Ray

I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.

— Dave Grohl

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

— John F. Kennedy

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society -…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and…

— Carine Roitfeld

We're at 103,000 feet. Looking out over a very beautiful, beautiful world . . . a hostile sky. As you look up…

— Joseph Kittinger

There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is…

— Kelis

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

— Nelson Shanks

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

— Ted Naifeh

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted…

— Brian McKnight

I loved 'The Artist.' I thought it was fantastic.

— Joel Kinnaman

As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process.

— Kate Bush

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

— Pat Oliphant

For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98,…

— Daniel Ek

It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just…

— Quavo

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need…

— Kenneth Tynan

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

— Obie Trice

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make…

— David Rees

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set…

— Sarah Gadon

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

— Natasha Lyonne

I stick to my guns - that's what keeps me going as an artist. Stevie Wonder never changed from what he wanted…

— Rakim

Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to…

— Paul Klee

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

— Ice T

Coming up as a female rapper - well, a female artist in general - everything is just so black and white.

— Tink

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out,…

— Lady Gaga

I always feel like we focus too much on image and the flashiness of what it means to be an artist.

— Gabriella Wilson

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to…

— Beyonce Knowles

It's a mystery to me why comics have been so despised for so long. Obviously, it has to do with the history…

— Jessica Abel

One thing I don't do anymore as I've gotten older is that I don't make big blanket statements about whether or not…

— Karyn Kusama

Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is.…

— Louis Kahn

In life we all go through different situations that cause you to reflect. I had the opportunity to be married to a…

— Ruben Studdard

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me…

— Kurt Sutter

I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very…

— Jim Woodring

I knew I wanted to be an artist early on, but I decided to seriously pursue the profession when I auditioned for…

— Corey Hawkins

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a…

— Hans Haacke

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go…

— Ice T

Producers are the people behind the biggest artists in the game. We definitely deserve that title to be considered as an artist,…

— Murda Beatz

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and…

— Devendra Banhart

Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also…

— Matthew Brannon