Artist Quotes · Page 533

Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.

— Robert Christgau

I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that…

— R. Kelly

For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five…

— Joe Louis Walker

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to…

— Eric Drooker

My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like…

— Amber Tamblyn

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate.…

— Annie Lennox

“Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?”

— Anonymous

The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of…

— Tinashe

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

— Izaak Walton

As an artist, that's our job - to be with you in times of celebration and when the world is kicking your…

— Killer Mike

Different directors have different techniques in the use of films. Cronenberg is very different in the way he works with film, and…

— Howard Shore

Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I tend to share whatever I know in general. I've never been a person to horde information for the sake of my…

— Queen Latifah

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

— Damien Hirst

As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent…

— Laurence Boldt

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

— T. S. Eliot

It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow.

— Mary Carroll Nelson

I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I…

— Justin Bieber

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

— Ray Conniff

Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

— Anonymous

At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I…

— Kehinde Wiley

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I did The Fifth Element and [Jean-Claude] Mezieres, the artist of Valerian; he was working on Fifth Element. And he's actually the…

— Luc Besson

Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory…

— Harold Rosenberg