Artists Quotes · Page 28

I believe in perpetual art, no matter if there are not many artists like me on this earth.

— Jeet Aulakh

I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers

— Robben Ford

“Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done.”

— Robert Henri

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

— Smokey Robinson

It's exciting for artists when you take them out of their comfort zone.

— Naughty Boy

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the…

— Bad Bunny

Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.

— David Oyelowo

I'm a huge fan of Geffen records. Everything about them - their artists, their videos, their marketing.

— Guy Oseary

“I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a…

— FKA twigs

“No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of…

— Amit Kalantri

If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who…

— Allan Savory

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with…

— Aberjhani

Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a…

— Steven Shainberg

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that,…

— King Tuff

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian…

— Russell Smith

“Historically, women have either been excluded from the process of creating the definitions of what is considered art or allowed to participate…

— Judy Chicago

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always…

— Emily Rios

“If you're an artist, always keep at it, there will be someone out there who sees the universe and soul in what…

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over…

— Jacob Latimore

We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of…

— Camille Paglia

I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presently because they liked my previous…

— Dev Hynes

“Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were…

— Alan Moore

We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the…

— Martin Filler

“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”

— Anonymous

I love to look at all those young artists' work and then bring them in, have them work with me at shows.

— Pat McGrath

“A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.”

— Amit Kalantri

Art is...a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.

— Aaron Howard

Artists are blessed to travel all over the world. They see the trends before they even come out.

— Tina Knowles

“Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.”

— Iris Murdoch

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

— Robert Genn

I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

— Chris Van Allsburg

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its…

— Jimenez Lai

“I had seen lot of good talent gone to waste because of ego, character and attitude of those talented individuals.”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who…

— Vanessa Paradis

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

— Nicolas Roeg

We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw…

— Kim Young-ha

Whether artists know it or not, I think we're all a little influenced by what came before.

— Michael McDonald

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

— John Elkann