The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person. — Ann Mortifee Copy Share Image
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to… — Mika Copy Share Image
There's just a lot of really, really great male artists right now, and it's good, too. And there's so many different influences… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
I was associated with the Artist Placement Group in the early 1970s and David Hall, the video artist, was an Artist Placement… — David Toop Copy Share Image
Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as… — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my… — Jesse McCartney Copy Share Image
When you're doing so much, there's so much on your mind. The bigger the artist you become, you have to think a… — Stefflon Don Copy Share Image
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door. — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
Create what you remember. Create what you repress. Create what you've never known & what you can't forget. — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
If you think of a solo artist, you normally know them by their name; you don't normally describe their kind of music.… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
“In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder.… — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
I haven't figured out how to do anything yet besides recording music - I don't even entirely know how to do that.… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
