Artist Quotes · Page 64

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.

— Common

My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

— Yayoi Kusama

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.

— Charles Fleischer

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

— Romare Bearden

I create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.

— Romeo Santos

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

— Patti Smith

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

— Pablo Picasso

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one…

— Paul Gauguin

I think the most important thing is you need to have a very, very clear idea of who you are as an…

— Chloe Kohanski

I think, as an artist I done conquered every way that you can go, as far as with creativeness, and directions and…

— Ginuwine

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a…

— Kenny Chesney

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be…

— Pablo Picasso

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis -…

— Kanye West

Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become…

— David Shrigley

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they…

— Mark Ruffalo

Being an independent artist myself with my own company, that's more money for me.

— Trina

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

“Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.

— Marko Djurdjevic

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

— John F. Kennedy

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

— Lynn Shelton

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

— Edward Abbey

I think what makes me great as a songwriter is there's still an artist behind it.

— The-Dream

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

— Jessie J

If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.

— FKA twigs

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

— Ai Weiwei

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

— Robert Schumann

I think I have something special. I am confident that I am going to be an artist.

— Rosalia

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

— Joe Nichols

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

— Roseanne Barr

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

— Julia Cameron

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

— Ad Reinhardt

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

— Juliette Lewis

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money.

— Shirin Neshat

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

— Robert Hughes

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

— Bono

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.

— El DeBarge