I want to create objects that will stimulate the viewer in ways that I am stimulated by these objects. Now that's an… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
Again there are so many records which contain fond memories and music and songs of which I have to say I am… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have… — Morgan James Copy Share Image
An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist. — Max Martin Copy Share Image
“You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire? — Jack Kroll Copy Share Image
I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I learned to play instruments and I've been in bands since I was 13, but I wanted to be an artist and… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next. — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're… — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that.… — Del Shannon Copy Share Image
That's a KORTAN DAHUK. That's the first alien we see in the film [Valerian]. That's another artist. The first one was Chinese,… — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
I really like John Legend as an artist and as a person. As well as Lyfe Jennings. Jeezy is good people as… — MC Serch Copy Share Image
I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo… — Michelle Chamuel Copy Share Image
The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image