Artist Quotes · Page 42

My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the…

— Patrick Seguin

I've always believed applause is food for an artist.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out.…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the…

— David Guetta

When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

— Patti Smith

I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead…

— Kim Gordon

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was…

— Janet Flanner

It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an…

— Andy Hertzfeld

I think I am the type of artist that, time and time again, either people love or don't know about.

— Raheem DeVaughn

“We place too much of ourselves inside art - so we become part of it and never feel quiet again for the…

— Laura Chouette

I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll…

— Liz Garbus

It is true that independent music is risky, but the amount of freedom of expression it provides an artist overpowers this risk.

— Ankit Tiwari

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I…

— Tom Seaver

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the…

— Patti Smith

When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which…

— Pierre Alechinsky

the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man;…

— Isak Dinesen

I think 'Hamilton' has made me look at myself deeper as an artist and what I'm looking for as an artist.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

I feel like it's not about the music anymore-it's about how many friends you have on Facebook and your Instagram pictures. I…

— Anthony Gonzalez

The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a…

— Lil' Kim

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.…

— Henry Miller

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously…

— Twyla Tharp

I would challenge more hip hop artists that are rapping about what it`s like to be real and the social ills that…

— Killer Mike

Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure…

— Peter Greenaway

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

— Louise Bourgeois