Artists Quotes · Page 22

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

— Brice Marden

I'm someone who lives with the work of artists I've been lucky enough to know or trade with.

— Zoe Buckman

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

— H. L. Mencken

It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.

— Frankie J. Grande

Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.

— Roberta Smith

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

— Andrew Jack

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

— Laura Mvula

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

— Jim Carroll

So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the…

— Mike Wilson

Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people…

— Benjamin Booker

Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that…

— Kanye West

“The human mind’s innate ability to imagine and create ensures that we never remain stalled out in who we are. We constantly…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art.…

— Michael Franti

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the…

— David Elliott

There's a lot of artists out there who are pretty big but don't write their songs, they just have a lifestyle brand.…

— Weyes Blood

With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both…

— Brad Delson

I think what's beautiful when you're looking at artists like Macklemore and you're looking at artists like Ayron Jones, they're proud of…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's…

— Annie Leibovitz

Some people say I do it too much, but I'm always asking the artist questions. Sometimes - especially with new artists -…

— Dev Hynes

“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay…

— Brian Koppelman

“I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the other faces in…

— Thomas Ligotti

I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to see…

— Tyga

“Artists create holes and openings in the universe. They sidestep the conventional, conditional, predictable and habitual, and they illuminate and connect different…

— Mary Button Durell

I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God,…

— Yolanda Adams

I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.

— La'Porsha Renae

In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.

— Phil Everly

“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

— Roger McGuinn

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

— Barbra Streisand

I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that.

— Chris Stokes

“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.”

— Arthur Holitscher

I think that a lot of times you have artists that try to deliver a positive message.

— Big Daddy Kane

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

— Tamara Feldman

I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals.

— Zoe Buckman

Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

— Marshall McLuhan

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

— Alan Arkin

We're trying to give back to artists of colour and make the journey for them a little easier.

— Mena Massoud

“Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

— Kiki Smith