I think functioning as a business manager can be a hindrance to having a real dialogue with the artist. I do think… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama's 'Hope' poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It's pretty serious. Detroit… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
I think that might just be how it works to be an artist: you have to pick yourself up and write something… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head. — Persis Khambatta Copy Share Image
I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
The first two major label records I did what I wanted to do. It wasn't a problem until after I finished my… — Van Hunt Copy Share Image
An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you… — Common Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a great drummer. I consider myself just a music fan that's a very, very passionate artist, and the… — Mike Portnoy Copy Share Image
If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour. — Galina Ulanova Copy Share Image
If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be… — Yuna Copy Share Image
Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk.… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we… — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
You never know what can happen if you get sampled by the biggest artist in the world. — Frank Dukes Copy Share Image
There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony. — Eddy Grant Copy Share Image
“People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of… — Betty Churcher Copy Share Image
An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
“What makes an amazing artist? It's not his ability to impress but his skill in touching people's lives through his craft. When… — Elizabeth E. Castillo Copy Share Image
The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Sometimes fame overshadows an artist's music, and we forget just how incredibly talented these people truly are. — Elvis Duran Copy Share Image
