Artists Quotes · Page 29

I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

— Rita Ora

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to…

— Brad Paisley

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

— Lawrence Durrell

I like a lot of the new artists, but there's only one I can name that stands out to me the most:…

— Prodigy

We as label executives, we have to know the limitations of the artists.

— Mathew Knowles

It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.

— Errol Morris

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

— Joyce Johnson

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

— Howard Hodgkin

“Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public…

— Nuno Roque

In the UK and the US especially you've got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they…

— Jamelia

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that…

— Andy Warhol

In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard,…

— Frank Rich

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I…

— Claudia Lee

I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican…

— Bill Laswell

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that.…

— Del Shannon

I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists... that…

— Michael Schultz

“In this world, this life, "flow" [the times when our work or play so absorbs and attunes our energies that we lose…

— Andy Crouch

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop,…

— John Lubbock

I kind of rode this weird line between athlete and artist. It was a little different because most of the athletes were…

— Terry Crews

“One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and…

— Alexandra York

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone -…

— Neil Strauss

“Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too…

— K.J. Bishop

When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there…

— Laurieann Gibson

Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records,…

— Jesse Harris

Labels don't want artists to put out mixtapes because they don't monetize it.

— Yo Gotti

Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.

— Marcus du Sautoy

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it…

— Tim Curry

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit…

— Annie Dillard

I hope to make the process of producing my take of the Biennial a transparent and interesting one for artists.

— Michelle Grabner

“Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate…

— Scott Nicholson

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

— Pat Metheny

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

— Kenneth Noland

The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.

— Deborah Moggach

As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.

— Vivek Shraya

All artists are redundant about their own style; they can't escape themselves.

— J. J. Cale

“The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone.

— Jancee Dunn

“Great art might not be popular, but it is always born out of non-linear, non-formulaic thinking.”

— Abhaidev

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne